remissformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Neglecting and ignoring
aside
beneath the/someone's radaridiom
block something out
brush someone/something off
bury/have your head in the sandidiom
ear
lay
let sleeping dogs lieidiom
let something rideidiom
look straight/right through someoneidiom
lose the dressing roomidiom
lost
nose
slightingly
snub
someone's back is turnedidiom
step
step on someone
stiff-arm
wink

Examples of neglectful

neglectful
This classification includes authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful parenting styles.
She had been known to social services for many years due to concerns about neglectful parenting, heavy drinking and severe domestic violence by her husband.
In the villages, however, the regime run by these administrators and chiefs appeared neglectful, capriciously oppressive and deeply corrupt.
These two publications are also somewhat neglectful of party politics and the state.
However, they were not neglectful of theatrical activity, and worked towards successive premieres under extremely difficult conditions and in constant fear of intervention or arrest.
Growing up in the deprived and sometimes neglectful group setting of orphanages may lead to a dysregulated stress system.
The effects of neglectful or uninvolved parenting on their children are familiar to developmental and clinical psychologists.
An analysis that excludes these factors is neglectful of the rounded whole of the experience of dance.
To act otherwise was to invite demonstrations of divine anger in the form of illness, death or some other misfortune visited upon the neglectful kin.
His attitude towards the party was seen as neglectful at best, destructive at worst.
Conceivably both sides were a trifle neglectful-neither possibly being particularly on the alert or mistrustful of the other.
Taken together, these studies suggest that a neglectful environment alters the dynamics of the normal circadian rhythm, producing a flat and low pattern of daytime cortisol production characteristic of hypocortisolism.
Some people were initially reluctant to make negative judgements about family members particularly their children or spoke defensively indicating an unwillingness to admit that their relatives were neglectful.
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