negligent

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Even when the government is clearly negligent, the veteran's only alternative is to file a VA disability claim.

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  1. adjective Characterized by or inclined to neglect, especially habitually.
  2. adjective Characterized by careless ease or informality; casual.
  3. adjective Law Guilty of negligence.
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  • What he did was negligent, there is no question about it. —  The Bilerico Project
  • He is being negligent, arrogant and incompetent in allowing this to go ahead. —  News round-up
  • Even when the government is clearly negligent, the veteran's only alternative is to file a VA disability claim. —  Salem-News.com
  • "While the respondent's actions were indeed misleading and, to a lesser degree, negligent, his actions do not rise to the level necessitating disbarment," wrote Chief Judge Robert M. Bell on behalf of the unanimous court.
  • You take a formal, negligent, and secure way as the most easy way, and the most pleasing to your flesh, and I am persuaded you find it the most difficult way, because you want all the pleasant and sweet refreshment and soul delights you might have in God, by a serious and diligent minding of religion. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin neglegēns, neglegent-, present participle of neglegere, to neglect; see neglect.

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  1. from Middle English negligent, from Old French negligent, French negligent = Spanish Portuguese negligente = It, negligente, nigligente, from Latin neglegen (t-) s, negligen (t-)s, present participle of neglegere, negligere, neglect: see neglect.
 

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/ˈnɛglɪdʒənt/
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