neglect - use in sentences

Object

  • precaution: Harsh penalties await any organization with an established duty of care that neglects these precautions.
  • aspect: More often than not it's also the most frequently neglected aspect of open-source projects.

Converse of object

  • suffer: There are certain neighborhoods where whole communities have suffered neglect on a massive scale.
  • perceive: The second issue for Labor that electoral reform helps is the perceived neglect of our core voters.
  • remedy: To remedy the neglect of small settlements which is such a characteristic of segregation research in the world outside Northern Ireland.

Adjective modifier

  • unilateral: A case of unilateral neglect in Huntington's Disease.
  • wilful: We did not omit the work of Birmingham on grounds of spite or wilful neglect.
  • benign: Section 1.4 The Technological Long Term Unlike the traditional archive, digital material cannot be the subject of benign neglect.
  • willful: Streets of fear are being created by a combination of destructive policies and willful neglect.
  • deliberate: MS is after all not deliberate neglect or abuse of the children.
  • spatial: Factors of interest Unilateral spatial neglect is a commonly occurring disorder following stroke.

Modifying Another Word

  • unjustly: It boosts Verlaine's unjustly neglected status as a pop craftsman and offers up tantalizing glimpses of his mad genius.
  • sadly: It was a solitary house, standing in a sadly neglected garden: a pretty even square of some two acres.
  • shamefully: Why can't all operas be like Giordano's shamefully neglected barnstormer?
  • sorely: I will concentrate on an area that has been sorely neglected over the years.
  • somewhat: Public Health informatics seems to be a somewhat neglected discipline on the web.

Infinitive complement

  • mention: They even neglected to mention their own " Sister Site " .
  • inform: Meanwhile Susie is worried about her future, and Joan neglects to inform Doreen of her imminent release.
  • tell: However, he has neglected to tell everyone his address or leave a valid contact number.

Preposition: of

  • duty: The Mayor, Charles Pinney, was aquitted at his trial for neglect of duty.

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