Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inattentive; regardless; neglectful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Neglectful.
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- adjective archaic
neglectful
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Examples
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But I can't think of something amazing right now, so I guess it's a passive neglective behavior.
Archive 2008-08-01 Zenmomma 2008
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But I can't think of something amazing right now, so I guess it's a passive neglective behavior.
Thursday Thirteen #??? I would never neglect you, my beloved blogoshere. Zenmomma 2008
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And it's nice to know you'll feel right at home here tomorrow, with weeds and dust and plenty of passive neglective behavior to go around.
Thursday Thirteen #??? I would never neglect you, my beloved blogoshere. Zenmomma 2008
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So much so that I really shouldn't be reading it because it's been days and I've been neglective personal hygiene.
Archive 2006-11-26 Miss Snark 2006
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So much so that I really shouldn't be reading it because it's been days and I've been neglective personal hygiene.
Miss Snark, unlike that other Queen, is amused Miss Snark 2006
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An early test indicated the powder was Ricin, but two new tests came up neglective.
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I put on quite a lot of suncream, but forgot parts of the neck - and was obviously a bit neglective about my chest, so I now have red stripes there.
Ouch, a roundup. mjg59 2005
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In the meanwhile, during your absence, I shall not be neglective of providing a wife for you, nor of those preparations which are requisite to be made for the more sumptuous solemnizing of your nuptials with a most splendid feast, if ever there was any in the world, since the days of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I swear to you here, by the good and frolic words which are to issue out of that wine-bottle which is a-cooling below in the copper vessel full of fountain water, that the noble Pantagruel never snatched any man by the throat, unless it was such a one as was altogether careless and neglective of those obviating remedies which were preventive of the thirst to come.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Corinth, the Corinthians having received certain intelligence by their spies that he with a numerous army in battle-rank was coming against them, were all of them, not without cause, most terribly afraid; and therefore were not neglective of their duty in doing their best endeavours to put themselves in a fit posture to resist his hostile approach and defend their own city.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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