Descuidado in english
Neglected
pronunciation: nəglektəd part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: nəglektəd part of speech: adjective
In gestures
descuidado1 = run-down ; sloppy ; messy ; rough and tumble ; neglected ; scruffy ; unkempt ; abandoned ; dingy ; straggly ; scraggly ; rumpled ; slipshod ; slovenly .
Example: In order to overcome the limitations of legal advice centres a number of lawyers in the early seventies began to set up law centres in run-down inner-city areas.Example: Even the best abstractors and indexers may be subject to sloppy practices and grammatical indiscretions from time to time.Example: The author discusses current attempts to organize electronic information objects in a world that is messy, volatile and uncontrolled.Example: Gloucester has been a rough and tumble fishing community and seaport since the 1600's.Example: The work of the Belgian internationalist and documentalist, Paul Otlet (1868-1944) forms an important and neglected part of the history of information.Example: The article 'Surprise: Scruffy Students Now Don Glad Rags for Class' reports that high school students throughout the country are dressing up these days and that what is chic varies from region to region.Example: Modern tourists lack a classical training, and most of them are bewildered by such unkempt ruins as those that are found in Rome.Example: It tells the story of a young detective who stumbles across a stash of jewel thieves hiding out in an abandoned house.Example: Shortly after he began as director, he moved the library from a dingy Carnegie mausoleum to a downtown department store that had become vacant.Example: British comic Russell Brand is preparing to say goodbye to his straggly locks in a bid to boost his movie career.Example: Even a scraggly beard does not hurt the looks of Rob, I can still look at him admiringly.Example: Peter Falk, who played television's rumpled detective Columbo for 30 years in an acting career that included 50 movies and spanned a half century, has died.Example: Nature meant him for a slipshod, shambling Bohemian -- happy, out-at-the-elbows, always in debt, always irresponsible, and always pursued by duns and bailiffs.Example: Teachers have complained about 'slovenly' parents dropping children off at school dressed in their pyjamas.more:
» aspecto descuidado = rough look .
Example: Damaged hair cuticles can cause split ends and give your hair a rough look.» de aspecto descuidado = rough-looking .
Example: A typical book from the hand-press period shows two pages of text, the type somewhat old-fashioned in design and with the unfamiliar long f, often heavily impressed into a rough-looking paper.» persona descuidada = sloven ; slattern .
Example: Take care of yourself for, as you will soon find to your cost, a sloven in one thing is a sloven in all things. Example: A woman who from being a slattern becomes overneat, or from being overneat becomes a slattern, is most certainly in love.descuidado2 = careless ; unattended ; be remiss ; thoughtless ; unaware ; lackadaisical ; slatternly.
Example: They will spend time trying to ascribe reasons to the variations whereas the true facts are that the citer was simply sloppy and careless.Example: He was hired to bring the library up to speed after a period of 2 years when it had been unattended by a librarian.Example: Yet readers would be remiss to rely solely on any single source for handling such sensitive and critical situations.Example: Frivolous or thoughtless spending can eat up your income and hence your future savings.Example: I had been under the assumption that attacking an opponent that was unaware would suffice to catch them flat-footed.Example: Perhaps there are extenuating circumstances, but his entire treatment of this today was lackadaisical journalism to put it mildly.Example: A fiercely energetic drama of Oedipal lust and yearning involving a rebellious farm boy, his tyrannical father, and the father's slatternly new wife.more:
» usar de un modo descuidado = bandy (about/around) ; bat + Nombre + around/about .
Example: The word 'analysis' was bandied around by all and sundry, but there was little agreement as to what it meant. Example: The term 'bit rot' gets batted around a lot, but its definition isn't so easy to nail down.» uso de un modo descuidado = bandying about .
Example: Most statements about electronic communication (laudatory and critical) tend toward generalizaton and the bandying about of vast numbers rather than being evaluative or descriptive.descuidar = neglect.
Example: It is difficult to neglect either entirely, without impairing the effectiveness in fulfilling the other objective.more:
» descuidar el trabajo = lie down on + the job .
Example: Anyway, we don't know much about Nicole yet, just that she's a babysitter who was caught lying down on the job.» descuidar las obligaciones de uno = fail + Posesivo + duty .
Example: If he attempts to deal with a query about China without first ensuring that it is the country and not the porcelain that is meant he is failing his duty.» descuidarse = go to + seed .
Example: She berated him for having 'gone to seed' and lambasted him for not living up to his ideals = Ella le recriminó por "abandonarse" y le acusó de no vivir de acuerdo con sus ideales.