The book is weak on anti-aircraft guns, for example, and still more
negligent of submarines.
James Harthouse, happening to catch Tom's eye, remarked that he drank nothing, and filled his glass with his own
negligent hand.
You will be eager, I know, to hear something further of Frederica, and perhaps may think me
negligent for not writing before.
Besides, there would be another inconvenience attending this proposal, for what is common to many is taken least care of; for all men regard more what is their own than what others share with them in, to which they pay less attention than is incumbent on every one: let me add also, that every one is more
negligent of what another is to see to, as well as himself, than of his own private business; as in a family one is often worse served by many servants than by a few.
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.
On her father, her confidence had not been sanguine, but he was more
negligent of his family, his habits were worse, and his manners coarser, than she had been prepared for.
On the bed, in a
negligent attitude, sat Pierrat Torterue, the official torturer.
They both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages; the young master being entirely
negligent how they behaved, and what they did, so they kept clear of him.
His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most
negligent and dilatory correspondent; but at such a time they had hoped for exertion.
He felt himself riding over the hills in the breezy autumn days, looking after favourite plans of drainage and enclosure; then admired on sombre mornings as the best rider on the best horse in the hunt; spoken well of on market-days as a first-rate landlord; by and by making speeches at election dinners, and showing a wonderful knowledge of agriculture; the patron of new ploughs and drills, the severe upbraider of
negligent landowners, and withal a jolly fellow that everybody must like--happy faces greeting him everywhere on his own estate, and the neighbouring families on the best terms with him.
I shall excuse you nothing on the plea of being my brother; if I find you stupid,
negligent, dissipated, idle, or possessed of any faults detrimental to the interests of the house, I shall dismiss you as I would any other clerk.
I have been very
negligent -- but are you now at leisure to satisfy me in these particulars?