Crossword-Solution: NEGLIGENCE 10 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Negligence n. The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due
diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.
Negligence n. An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.
Negligence n. The omission of the care usual under the circumstances,
being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher
skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist,
and liability for negligence varies acordingly.

We have 26 clues for the answer “NEGLIGENCE”

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the state of being negligent 1 answer
Failure to exercise appropriate care 1 answer
Lack of proper care or attention 1 answer
laches 1 answer
defalcation 11 answers
dereliction 16 answers
Oversight 17 answers
Dilapidation 22 answers
FALSE move 27 answers
delinquency 29 answers
sloppiness 32 answers
permissiveness 33 answers
laxness 36 answers
imprecision 37 answers
Mistreatment 39 answers
unrestraint 40 answers
imprudence 44 answers
Recklessness 48 answers
Disdain 55 answers
Default 56 answers
avoidance 60 answers
Omission 63 answers
concealment 71 answers
Immaturity 72 answers
Slip 85 answers
Enthusiasm 92 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with NEGLIGENCE (5)

Instead of a reprimand for their previous negligence, the case seemed rather to require an eulogium on their praiseworthy caution after the mischief had happened; a grateful recognition of the promptitude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Availing himself of their negligence, by a sudden exertion of strength and activity, Gurth shook himself free of their hold, and might have escaped, could he have resolved to leave his master’s property behind him.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
She began to set the toilet-stand to rights, grumbling at the negligence of the quadroon, who was in the adjoining room putting the children to bed.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
Design could never bring them in each other’s way: negligence could never leave them exposed to a surprise; and chance had less in its favour in the crowd of London than even in the retirement of Barton, where it might force him before her while paying that visit at Allenham on his marriage, which Mrs.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994
There was something especially confident and masterly in the artist’s negligence of all such small picturesque accessories as might serve to label his figure to a vulgar apprehension.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Quotes with NEGLIGENCE (3)

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once mor…
Robert G. Ingersoll The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
James Martineau Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau
I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it — our life — hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.‘But let all this threaten to become impossible for ever, how beautiful it would become again! Ah! If only the cataclysm doesn’t happen this time, we won’t miss visiting the new galleries of the Louvre, thr…
Marcel Proust
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