Sentence examples for than diligent from inspiring English sources

But even in Ms. Laurans' class his work was less than diligent.

I have had a few problems along the way and been less than diligent in documenting them.

Critics say the administration has been less than diligent in seeking public comment for this change as required by law.

"There was no indication at all from the independent directors that they were anything other than diligent in their duties," Mr. Miller said.

Way back when, Dara Torres was a cut-up, not cut in stone, and she came across as more dilettante than diligent.

It is also possible that Mr. Cohen, after receiving the Cole's final report, may himself decide to recommend disciplining any commanders found to have been less than diligent.

Granted, there was the occasional errant wire cut by a less-than-diligent New Jersey Telephone employee and there went Mom's conversation with Aunt Shirley in Boca.

There were, the Wu Mings say, nearly 50 Luther Blissetts in Bologna alone, with hundreds more around Europe, and the group pulled off some notable hoaxes aimed at exposing the Italian media's chauvinism and less-than-diligent fact-checking.

There are armies of bots viewing and clicking on ads, creating huge volumes of fake traffic that result in large sums of advertising dollars for fraudsters and less-than-diligent publishers.

Investors counted on his reputation, rather than on diligent inspection of his audits, to safeguard their money.

Much like Elaine Garzarelli, the Lehman Bros. analyst who rose to fame when she "predicted" the stock-market crash of 1987, Blodget and many of his peers are winning their recognition more by sheer luck than by diligent research and analysis.