negligently

Adverb

Meaning

In a negligent manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

anyhow jauntily roughly poorly badly careless casually carelessly indifferently rashly clumsily inefficiently irresponsibly lazily nonchalantly
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Antonyms

completely diligently conscientiously alright gingerly comprehensively
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Examples

To allude negligently to Kafka, Yeats, Proust, Stendhal, or St. John of the Cross in a tone of of-course-you-know-them is canonical for Mademoiselle contributors, whatever the topic in hand. Mary McCarthy

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. Cicero

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole. Corrine Brown

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. Nina Bawden

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic. Samuel Johnson

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Close letter words and terms

negligent person negligent retention negligent supervision negligibility negligible negligible amount