Meaning of uncared-for | Babel Free

Definitions

Lacking care; neglected.

Equivalents

Examples

“1685, John Norris, (translator), The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great [Cyropaedia] by Xenophon, London: Matthew Gilliflower and James Norris, Book 8, p. 133, For, for the most part the Captains of ten take⟳ Care of their ten, and the Captains of the Regiments take⟳ Care of the Captains of ten, the Tribunes take⟳ Care of the Captains of the Regiments, and the Captains of ten thousand take⟳ care of the Tribunes. By which means it comes to pass⟳ that among so many thousands none are left uncared for […]”

“1858, George Eliot, “Mr. Gilfil’s Love⟳ Story,” Chapter 5, in Scenes of Clerical Life, London: William Blackwood & Sons, Volume 1, p. 272, […] hidden and uncared for as the pulse of anguish in the breast of the tiniest bird that has fluttered down to its nest with the long-sought food, and has found the nest torn and empty.”

“1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chicago: A. C. McClurg, Chapter 7, “Of the Black Belt,” p. 117, […] now only the black tenant remains; but the shadow-hand of the master’s grand-nephew or cousin or creditor stretches out of the gray distance to collect⟳ the rack-rent remorselessly, and so the land⟳ is uncared-for and poor.”

“The uncared-for external appearance of the tanks is nothing to go by, for the glass-lined tanks are kept in perfect condition.”

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