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Criminal negligence   /krˈɪmənəl nˈɛglədʒəns/   Listen
Criminal 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: culpable negligence.






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"Criminal negligence" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Newfoundlanders their "Magna Charta," had been sent by the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere on March 26, 1857. But Mr. Labouchere was not a Tory; and there is the whole difference. So Newfoundland still has to suffer for the criminal negligence which British Tories have displayed ...
— Newfoundland and the Jingoes - An Appeal to England's Honor • John Fretwell

... moment that they would knowingly approve the treatment our prisoners received. But their own reputation before the world makes it their duty to fix the responsibility for a great crime upon those whose commands or whose criminal negligence caused horrors which are among the most odious ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox



Words linked to "Criminal negligence" :   carelessness, neglect, nonperformance, jurisprudence, negligence, law



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