Sentence examples for neglectful in from inspiring English sources

"I felt I had been neglectful in my relationship with my mother," said Pastor Flippin, 68.

The state too often acts like a bad parent, neglectful in repeatedly tolerating bad behaviour, then inevitably harsh.

Some neighbours said the boys' mother was neglectful in part because of an alleged severe cannabis habit developed when she was a teenager.

Members of Congress and President Bush will be politically foolish, not to mention neglectful in their duties, if they duck the problem and simply allow America's patchwork of thousands of underfinanced electoral jurisdictions to continue carrying on as if nothing had happened.

He also makes the argument that the BC government has been neglectful in looking after the mythical creature.

It is clear that the server operator, who under law is responsible for any rented space, was neglectful in undertaking the necessary duties to monitor its guest.

In this study, ser40 pTH activity, but not TH expression, was elevated in neglectful mice in ZI (Fig. 6).

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 — Lawyers trying to persuade a jury to spare the life of Zacarias Moussaoui began presenting testimony about his childhood on Monday, to show that he grew up in a neglectful household in France where his father beat his mother regularly and that he spent much of his youth in orphanages.

This usually happens in emotionally neglectful situations in which a child's attempts at affection are repeatedly rebuffed.

At the time of neglect, neglectful mothers swam significantly more in a forced swim test relative to nurturing mothers.

There are spectacularly neglectful mothers in Philip Hensher's 2011 King of the Badgers, and in Dennis Lehane's thriller Gone Baby Gone (1998) – the Lehane ending on a decision concerning the mother that must have every reader (or viewer of the 2007 film) debating the rights and wrongs of the case.