slight care


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Noun1.slight care - such care as a careless or inattentive person would exercise
guardianship, tutelage, care, charge - attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
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'Gross negligence is the want of even slight care, acting or omitting to act in a situation where there is a duty to act, not inadvertently but willfully and intentionally, with a conscious indifference to consequences as far as other persons are concerned,' it added.
In so doing, the defendant failed to exercise even slight care in securing the bailed items when he left Mrs.
Any other result would have been "too dangerous a policy," he said, adding, "How can you tolerate a society that takes your developmentally disabled children [in a recreational program] but does not use even slight care to keep them alive?"