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are neglectful
adjective
Tending to neglect; failing to take care of matters which require attention.
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We might see the parent doting in public; perhaps they are neglectful at home.
I wish I could read the minds of parents who are neglectful to see what makes them like this.
Aboriginal women have been told for the better part of two centuries that they are neglectful and not fit to raise children.
The research aside, anyone who spends time in middle- or upper-class communities can see the harm done to children by parents who are neglectful or who spoil them rotten.
Many, both poor and relatively well off, have also been let down by the state: government schools have failed, hospitals are neglectful, rubbish isn't collected and water isn't clean.
The second set of villains to be tackled are neglectful parents, who (supposedly) for the first time be criminalised for physical as well as emotional neglect, although the fact that the emotional dimension has not be spelled out on the face of statute before does not mean that the courts have previously neglected it.
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They are not being neglectful.
If they do, they're neglectful.
And he has been neglectful on that issue.
Perhaps I should not criticise; it was I who was neglectful.
She also complained that he was neglectful when her father died earlier this winter.
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