negligently

negligent | American Dictionary

negligent
adjective
us/ˈneɡ·lɪ·dʒənt/
failing to be careful enough or to give enough attention to your responsibilities, esp. when this results in harm or loss to others

negligence

noun[ U ]us/ˈneɡ·lə·dʒəns/
She charged her landlord with negligence for not repairing leaks that ruined her rugs.

negligent | Business English

negligent
adjective
 LAWuk /ˈneɡlɪdʒənt/us
not giving enough care or attention to someone or something that you are responsible for:
It was necessary to prove that the manager had been negligent.
be negligent in (doing) sthThe court ruled that the company was negligent in manufacturing, selling, and testing its product.
criminally/grossly negligent

Examples of negligent

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Negligent mistakes can be penalized as lesser included public-welfare offences with monetary disincentives.
The natural lottery rule suggests that each negligent party is under a duty to compensate the victim for the full extent of harm suffered.
If negligence is itself wrongdoing and the parties are equally negligent, then-it might be argued-the liability of the parties ought to be similar.
It seems prima facie arbitrary that two equally negligent parties who differ in their luckiness may be liable for vastly different amounts.
A man need not possess the highest expert skill at the risk of being found negligent.
Furthermore, this account is not adequate to explain excusable, justifiable, or negligent omission.
In analyzing the duties that we owe to wrongdoers, it is useful to distinguish between intentional wrongdoers and negligent wrongdoers.
But to provide a basic account of negligent omission as such, we need to focus on the omission itself, not its consequences.
Or the fault could have been caused by negligent workmanship.
Finally, wrongful life suits permit children to sue their parents for callous or negligent creation, whereas, their counterparts focus only upon medical misfeasance.
Therefore, in most cases in which persons could alter their conduct to protect negligent persons from self-injur y they have no duty to do so.
Employers would pay not because they were negligent, but because accidents were inherent in an industrial society and therefore a cost of doing business.
I think that she does have such a right, even if she was contributorily negligent in having created the risk.
In such a case, two people may disagree whether a defendant's behavior was negligent.
He could not prove which of the two negligent hunters had actually injured him and which had missed him.
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