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neglected

If something is neglected, no one cares for it or pays attention to it. This building is obviously more neglected than the others in this neighborhood. I feel so neglected lately. No one ever asks me how I am feeling.

neglected

(= unattended) lacking a caretaker a neglected child many casualties were lying unattended (= ignored, unheeded) disregarded his cries were unheeded Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, 'A Village Wooing' her ignored advice

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Simple sentences

Tom neglected his family.
I neglected to note it in my calendar.
The boy had bad teeth because he neglected to brush them.
He neglected his duties.
Tom neglected his work.
Tom neglected his duties.
I felt very neglected.
The neglected room remained unoccupied.
Tom neglected his cough and got bronchitis.

Movie subtitles

Say, fella, you neglected me and I feel very put out.
The neglected wife as usual. Yes.
The lovely neglected wife.
I would rather neglected.
Feeling neglected?
I've been thrown out of my own home, threatened by cops. chased around in taxi cabs. and neglected my job, because I loved you and wanted you back again.
I never saw a more gross neglected duty in my life.
Oh, Davos, seems I neglected to tip you when we.
I see I haven't been neglected: One vote.
You neglected your work this afternoon.
Do you think it's fair to leave a beautiful woman like this alone, neglected while you indulge your own selfish pleasures?
But yet I do believe the origin and commencement of his grief sprung from neglected love.
Apply this same law to this maltreated wife. and neglected woman.
Perhaps they neglected to tell you at medical school that a rabbit has pointed ears!
To make the most out of these huge areas the nomadic Arabs have neglected, we need big capitalist companies who possess great means.
Poor kid, you have been neglected, haven't you?
Perfectly simple. Neglected wife wants to make husband jealous.
Feeling neglected? Here's a cocktail.
And, uh, unfortunately, when I left my private yacht. I neglected to put a stiver in my pocket.
There's only one trouble with the whole setup, something that Gerry neglected to tell you.
I neglected to warn him.
Lisinski had worked tirelessly and with so much zeal to bring his first opera to life, that he neglected to take care of himself.
They neglected to tell you at school that a rabbit has large pointed ears.
A neglected house gets an unhappy look.
You have again neglected your duties towards the calendar.
As if you'd neglected something.
I have neglected you, my little Hansel, yes.
If I'd known you were being neglected, I would have come sooner.
I know I've neglected you, and rather focused on my job. Don't you want to give me a chance to make good?
My doctor reduced me to ten a day, but luckily neglected to specify the size.
Lord Augustus, you have quite neglected me.
I neglected to order a gown for your wedding.
There's one argument he neglected to use. -Oh, what was that?
I've neglected you shamefully.
He told me something else, which I neglected to tell you.

News and current affairs

So, while the rebirth of the Taliban is in part due to the woefully neglected reconstruction of the Pashto Southern and Eastern part of the country, it also has external causes.
The voices of neglected swaths of the electorate, particularly in the rural north and northeast of the country, began to count.
Annan and Gurría also neglected to note that global Accumulated Cyclone Energy, an index for total hurricane activity, is hovering at the lowest values seen since the 1970's.
Regardless of how this crisis develops from this point, the UN has neglected its duties by asking a wimp to lead the inspectors who are supposed to stand up to the brute of Baghdad.
That is why, after years of being neglected as a viable option, it is time for the social-democratic project to return to the political fore.
In India safety conditions are so neglected in many factories that numerous children have died in electrical fires and chemical explosions.
The great, neglected German economist Friedrich List, a student of Hamilton's work, laid out an innovation roadmap for his own country in 1841, in his National System of Political Economy.
There remain in Romania today disadvantaged and neglected groups who are pushed to society's sordid margins.
Moreover, despite US economic successes at home, America has neglected its moral and practical responsibilities as an aid giver to poor countries.
But this clearly appeals to those who feel that they have been neglected and forgotten.
Indeed, in the Khodorkovsky affair, all procedural requirements have been blithely neglected.
The DPJ has had scant time to make up for what the LDP has long neglected.
Venezuela now pines for the fat OPEC years of the 1970s--which it missed, because it neglected to develop its oil industry.
Moreover, an intrinsic and often neglected problem is how to divide management of aid-and-trade schemes among international and domestic institutions.
Six years after Lula's inauguration, and despite Bush's trip, Latin American politicians continue to believe that their region is being neglected.
But some areas in which Europe could gain a competitive advantage have been neglected.
Indeed, it also grossly neglected to deal with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Miyazaki Prefecture, allowing the disease to spread out of control.
There is nothing stopping Muslim governments from taking a page out of the Saudi handbook and promoting the neglected shrines in their own territories.
But this does not mean that agriculture should be neglected; on the contrary, it remains a way of life for many millions of Indians, who need capital and new technology.

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