Remiss

(a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.

(n.) The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure.

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• Remiss in anything, my dear! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Don't it make him, perhaps, a little more remiss than usual in his visits to his blindly-doting--eh? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Mr. Rushworth is never remiss. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• She had been often remiss, her conscience told her so; remiss, perhaps, more in thought than fact; scornful, ungracious. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I don't think he'll find that I have been very remiss or confused in my way of conducting them; but that's for him to say--whoever he is--not for me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• That he might not be remiss in his part of the engagement, he resolved to wait full two hours, on this third and last night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Have I been remiss in anything? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Not to wait upon a bride is very remiss. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• You have been very remiss in not coming to me sooner, said he, severely. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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