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NEGLIGENTLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does negligently mean?
• NEGLIGENTLY (adverb)
The adverb NEGLIGENTLY has 1 sense:
1. in a negligent manner
Familiarity information: NEGLIGENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a negligent manner
Context example:
he did his work negligently
Pertainym:
negligent (characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern)
Context examples
Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation, come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I passed it as negligently as I did the pollard willow opposite to it: I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life—my genius for good or evil—waited there in humble guise.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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