Neglect
Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.
Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.
Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.
Habitual carelessness; negligence.
The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.
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Neglect Quotations
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Colin Powell
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
Alfred Adler
I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Neglect Translations
neglect in Dutch is veronachtzamen
neglect in Italian is negligere
neglect in Latin is praetermissio, incultus, incuriosus, incuria
neglect in Spanish is descuidar, desatender
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