Synonym: disregard, ignore, omit, overlook, pass over, slight. Antonym: endeavor, respect. Similar words: elect, select, lecture, collect, selected, electric, election, selection. Meaning: [nɪ'glekt] n. 1. lack of attention and due care 2. the state of something that has been unused and neglected 3. willful lack of care and attention 4. the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern 5. failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances. v. 1. leave undone or leave out 2. fail to do something; leave something undone 3. fail to attend to 4. give little or no attention to.
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(121) The profound neglect of psychological, social and political considerations renders such treatments shallow and incomplete.
(122) Many people are deeply concerned about the neglect of crofting land.
(123) Neglect of these rights has, in severe cases, contributed to extremism, regional instability and conflict.
(124) To a large extent, however, fashionable doctrine has been the excuse for actual incompetence and neglect.
(125) The south in particular was enveloped in a pall of neglect.
(126) People who neglect to flush public toilets may be fined.
(127) Above all, Alida Thorne said to herself, she must not receive the impression of neglect.
(128) Should counselors violate privileged communication by reporting suspected cases of abuse or neglect?
(128) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
(129) The hardship and neglect suffered by the sick was confirmed by a report published by the Lancet in 1866.
(130) Laws, however much they may help, do not prevent child abuse and neglect from occurring each year.
(131) I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn
(132) It would seem that much effort up to now has focused upon information gathering to the neglect of the other two processes.
(133) After centuries of neglect, the indigenous people are waking up.
(134) The script was treated with creative neglect, the acting embellished with impromptu flourishes and stumbles.
(135) No surprise, then, that the airline stands accused of corporate arrogance and customer neglect.
(136) Self-help has become a vicious and patronising fiction which is deployed to excuse society's neglect of its lowest earners.
(137) No zealous advocate of good citizenship would argue that political participation ought to be pursued to the neglect of all other obligations.
(138) Nationwide, only one in four cases of child abuse and neglect is reported.
(139) I must keep an eye out for signs of neglect, abuse, drug use and poor attendance.
(140) Nowadays we literally can not afford to neglect the investment, the hard financial investment, stored in our built environment.
(141) If it does not kill off the golden goose, it will certainly let it starve to death through neglect.
(142) Keynes's theory of labour market adjustment has fallen victim to widespread ignorance and neglect.
(143) Some teachers devote too much time to helping their slower students and neglect the brighter ones.
(144) There have also been cases of deliberate neglect of property in order to force tenants out of the building.
(145) But his work lives on, and after decades of neglect he is rediscovered, celebrated anew and recognized at last.
(146) We have no reliable statistics on the extent of child abuse and neglect.
(147) In severe depression apathy can lead to neglect, irritability to physical harm, and depressive delusions to infanticide.
(148) Neglect yourself and self-doubt begins to creep in and that swiftly turns to depression.
(149) Many people intent on pursuing an exciting and fulfilling career neglect the other two legs.
(150) There are various symptoms that should alert educators that some form of abuse or neglect is taking place.
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