Definition: 1. Leave undone or leave out. 2. Fail to do something; leave something undone. 3. Fail to attend to. 4. Lack of attention and due care. 5. The state of something that has been unused and neglected. 6. Willful lack of care and attention.
Use 'neglect' in a sentence:
1. He'd given too much to his career, worked long hours, neglected her.
2. The buildings are crumbling from years of neglect.
3. America and Japan have settled back into a policy of benign neglect of their currencies.
4. While slogging at work, have you neglected your marriage?
5. The place smelled of decay and neglect.
6. The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older.
7. The building had a general air of decrepitude and neglect.
8. Neglect of family and friends.
9. The neglect that large cities like New York have received over the past 12 years is tremendous.
10. This belief in "post-industrial society" has led those countries to neglect their manufacturing sector with negative consequences for their economies.
11. In fact, there are often huge "quick win" opportunities, thanks to years of neglect.
12. The woman denied that she had neglected her child.
13. In 1755 British writer Samuel Johnson published an acerbic letter to Lord Chesterfield rebuking his patron for neglect and declining further support.
14. Parents who neglect their children.
15. His wife set about upbraiding him for neglecting the children.
16. He is chargeable with a fault or neglect.
17. If he lacked Mr Rumsfeld's bark, Mr Gates had a sharper bite: he fired the civilian head of the army over the neglect of wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed army hospital;
18. The sergeant faces a lesser charge of wilful neglect of duty.
19. Don't neglect minor issues.
20. The law imposes penalties for the neglect of children.
21. The buildings had been neglected for years.
22. Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani have a dominant Muslim population and have long complained of neglect and discrimination in the largely Buddhist nation.
23. Most are caused by ignorance, carelessness, neglect, or lack of skill.
24. Another possible explanation for historians' neglect of the subject is their widespread assumption that most people in early modern England had little contact with civil law.
25. They were neglected before because they did not come under the Ministry of Defence.
26. The town's old quayside is collapsing after years of neglect.
27. In the public discussion of nuclear policies, technology has usually been overemphasized and morality neglected.
28. She has neglected her studies.
29. Children have the right to expect the government to protect them from all kinds of abuse and neglect.
30. What may account for the neglect of sustainability in the USDA's Dietary Guidelines according to the author?
31. If you are not careful, children tend to neglect their homework.
32. But the intention is not to neglect social science; rather, the complete opposite.
33. There was a slight but perceptible air of neglect.
34. Neglect of it will lead us to end up being estranged from, or even hostile to, each other.
35. If we neglect any of these areas, the child's development lags.
36. However, these disorders often remain throughout life due to neglect or absence of specific kind of treatment.
37. His father would accuse him of neglecting his filial duties.
38. Two reasons for this relative neglect seem obvious.
39. Wilful neglect of our manufacturing industry has caused this problem.
40. The company was publicly rebuked for having neglected safety procedures.
41. They neglected to rearm in time and left Britain exposed to disaster.
42. We often neglect to make proper use of our bodies.
43. You neglected to mention the name of your previous employer.
44. Dance has been neglected by television.
45. All too often the animals die through neglect.
46. Opposition MPs charged the minister with neglecting her duty.
47. Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean.
48. Feed plants and they grow, neglect them and they suffer.
49. Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect the mouth.
50. They neglect their duty at the least hint of fun elsewhere.
51. After years of neglect and decline the city was cleaning itself up.
