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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



... believe for one 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 things in the ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... which were not furnished to the army at all, so surgeons could not procure medicines and other necessaries which were locked in the storehouses in Washington. This subject will be more fully alluded to in another place, and it is to be hoped that the responsibility of this criminal negligence to supply the army with medical and hospital stores may fall ...
— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens


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


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