Negligent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NEGLIGENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• careless
• failing to take proper care over something
• habitually neglecting duties, responsibilities, etc
• Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order.
• characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• marked by or given to neglect especially habitually or culpably; failing to exercise the care expected of a reasonably prudent person in like circumstances

Words related to NEGLIGENT

negligently16

Words that contain NEGLIGENT

negligently16 nonnegligent14

How to use NEGLIGENT in a sentence

• The lover-like pretensions of Shade Buckheath, a man dangerous, remorseless, as careless of the rights of others as any tiger in the jungle, she regarded with negligent composure.
• The colored figures are washed with dull tints in a very shabby and negligent way.
• White, in general, indicates the source whence he has drawn, though we have sometimes found him negligent in this respect.
• If any slave was insolent, or negligent, the driver was authorized to punish him with the whip, with as many blows as the magnitude of the crime justified.
• On entering, he found the father seated at his humble hearth, unshaven, and altogether a man careless and negligent of his appearance.
• And whosoever shalbe found negligent or faulty in this kinde shalbe subject to the censure of the Governor and Counsell.
• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
• But nine-tenths of his defects are not, I believe, the errors of an inspired genius, ignorant of art, but the sins of a great but negligent artist.
• A Company man, his tunic shabby and open in a negligent fashion at his thick throat, stood waiting for them.
• Let the light of His glory, O people, shine upon you, and be not of the negligent.
• They refused to receive any visits, became negligent of their personal appearance, and centred their whole affection upon the object of their study.
• Still stood his negligent master, fascinated in his study of the lovely, graceful girl.
• The passive and negligent attitude which the Buchanan administration had maintained toward the insurrection during the whole three months between the presidential election and Mr.
• I fear she will think me negligent, while I am only busy and bothered.
• He was at his restful ease, this slender, brown man, negligent, careless, eyes twinkling but alert.
• But these were not in the least negligent either to assault him or defend themselves with all the courage imaginable.
• The smaller boys recited their lessons well enough, but some of the larger ones were negligent and surly.
• Rather negligent in his dress, and far from elegant in manner, he would hardly be noticed at first as one of the leading members of the body.
• While Elizabeth insured tranquillity from the attempts of her nearest neighbor, she was not negligent of more distant dangers.
• The reproaches he heard every Gazette-day against the writer of it, inspired him with a fortitude of being remarkably negligent of what people said, which he did not deserve.
• He was careless in his gait, and negligent in his dress.
• You are very young to have such a responsibility put upon you, but I know you will feel the importance of your duty, and that you will not be forgetful or negligent about it.
• His intention in assuming charge of them for a brief space was to teach some negligent person a lesson.
• Her hair was done low and loose with a negligent wave where it turned back from her left eyebrow.
• He was, however, of a roving disposition, and, though tenderly attached to his wife, was often absent, negligent, and careless of her feelings.
• I wish to punish her friends, as she calls them, for their malice towards me, for their cold and negligent treatment of me whenever I go to the house.
• Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
• Thrale that I am negligent, and to Francis to do what is so very unnecessary.
• As he says, such persons are too apt to be negligent and careless of their own children and their private concerns.

Similar words containing NEGLIG without suffix ent

neglige9 negligee10 negliges10 negligees11 negligence14 negligible14 negligibly17 negligeable15 negligences15 negligently16 nonnegligent14 negligibility20 negligibleness18 negligibilities19

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