negligently

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in an irresponsible and/or otherwise unacceptable manner

   They did their work negligently.

2. 2
   adv

   In a negligent manner: carelessly or inattentively.

   With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.

Etymology

From negligent + -ly.