"persistent neglect" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an expression that suggests that a person or thing has been neglected for a prolonged period of time, often causing serious harm or damage. For example, "The persistent neglect of the industrial property led to its historic decline".
But both the problem and its worsening reflect a toxic combination of deep-seated hostility and persistent neglect.
In one remarkable sequence, Nunez says first that Sontag carried a lifelong wound from her mother's persistent neglect and selfishness.
This pattern of vague encouragement followed by persistent neglect will recur throughout the decade of Andy's life depicted in the play.
Persistent neglect of education could no longer be explained by sheer backwardness and lack of funds: the Russian Empire of 1900 could have afforded a modern school system, albeit rudimentary, if its rulers had considered it a top priority.
In a patient with severe persistent neglect we were able to demonstrate that the deficit in statistical learning was not absolute, as this subject improved his identification times for targets appearing in high probability regions of the test display.
So the suggestion that the criterion of empirical significance can be regarded as a proposal for how to treat the language of science cannot be brushed aside but for the persistent neglect of the philosophical projects of Carnap or the non-formalist left Vienna Circle.
Facing persistent, lethal neglect of a basic precaution, hospitals are using high-tech sensors, training hand-washing coaches and issuing gold stars.
Alternatively, impaired performance may be related to persistent hemispatial neglect.
Sexual violence in armed conflicts – and the physical and psychological consequences of such horrors – continues to be one of the most persistent and most neglected injustices.
The findings suggest that the persistent – and usually neglected average large advantage of boys in mechanical reasoning (MR) — orthogonal to g – might be behind their higher presence in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) disciplines.
Then again, it may be that the song's persistent relevance explains the neglect.
