Negligently
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Negligently is an adverb meaning In a negligent manner: carelessly or inattentively.
Meaning
In a negligent manner: carelessly or inattentively.
Example Sentences
With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.
"Ignorance!" Ser Perth murmured to himself. He sighed heavily. "Always ignorance. Well, then, listen." He sat down on the corner of the desk and took out a cigarette. At least it looked like a cigarette. He snapped his fingers and lighted it from a little flame that sprang up, blowing clouds of bright green smoke from his mouth. The smoke hung lazily, drifting into vague patterns and then began to coalesce into a green houri without costume. He swatted at it negligently.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include recklessly, carelessly, neglectingly, neglectfully, unobservantly, overcarelessly.
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