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Another word for negligent

Adjective

  1. Guilty of neglect; lacking due care or concern

    2. See also:

    careful

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Another word for negligent

Modifier
    2. See also:

    remiss

    unconcerned

    remiss

    careless

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Sentence Examples

  • You're negligent in your duties.

  • In later years he was negligent in dress and loose in bearing.

  • Smallpox also is practically endemic, owing in great part to negligent sanitary supervision.

  • When Charles returned to Germany, after assuming the crowns in Rome and Milan, Petrarch addressed a letter of vehement invective and reproach to the emperor who was so negligent of the duties imposed on him by his high office.

  • No man was more negligent in his dress and habit and mien, no man more wary and cultivated in his behaviour and discourse.

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