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Culpable negligence   /kˈəlpəbəl nˈɛglədʒəns/   Listen
Culpable negligence

noun
1.
(law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences).  Synonym: criminal negligence.





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"Culpable negligence" Quotes from Famous Books



... to point out to the colonial secretary "the severe strain" that this sad state of things made, not only upon charity, but upon the very loyalty of the people to a government which had shown such culpable negligence since the outbreak of the famine and the exodus from the plague-stricken island. He expressed the emphatic opinion that "all things considered, a great deal of forbearance and good feeling had been shown by the colonists under this trial." He gave full expression to the general ...
— Lord Elgin • John George Bourinot
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... the case of the tares, the sleep of the husbandman implies no culpable negligence either in the natural or spiritual sphere. "Sind wir am Tage recht wach; dann, moegen wir Nachts ruhig schlafen."—Draeseke, vom ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot
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Words linked to "Culpable negligence" :   nonperformance, jurisprudence, negligence, criminal negligence, neglect, carelessness, law


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