Sentence examples for be neglectful from inspiring English sources
adjective
Tending to neglect; failing to take care of matters which require attention.
She could be neglectful (Vance lived alone for much of the ninth grade) and abusive.
It would be neglectful to hand over those schools without their views being represented.
With their crowd, almost all of whom stood throughout and sang along lung-bustingly, to do so would be neglectful.
This is understandable: given the ubiquity of the renaissance narrative, reviewers would be neglectful journalists if they didn't.
The study did not examine specific effects on men's behavior, like whether those with smaller drops in testosterone were more likely to be neglectful or aggressive.
When a surprise witness admits to having had an affair with the husband, the husband's lawyer then tries to prove the mother to be neglectful of her child.
They are not being neglectful.
If they do, they're neglectful.
And he has been neglectful on that issue.
The mother, she said, had not been neglectful.
"Look at our streets -- we are neglectful of everything.
