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Definition
insufficient care or attention (not being careful enough or not trying hard enough to fulfill a responsibility)
- Entering the garret through the skylight, he went down the ladder, knowing that the door at the bottom of it was sometimes, through the negligence of the servants, left unlocked.Book 6 — The Russian Monk (54% in)
There are no more uses of "negligent" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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