Synonyms for neglecting
ne·glect·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "neglecting":

   ignoring, overlooking, failing

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1. Mitch Zeller:

   All cigars pose serious negative health risks. To exclude some would be neglecting our duty to protect public health.

2. Amanda Gorman:

   In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years. But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal. It’s doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile with.

3. Norval Morris:

   The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.

4. William Shakespeare:

   Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

5. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2:

   I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.