I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flagrant disregard
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a flagrant disregard for the law
ignore/disregard sb’s advice (= not do what someone tells you )
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The accident happened because she ignored their advice.
reckless disregard
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a reckless disregard for safety
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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By disregarding speed limits and passing red lights, we somehow got to the airport in time.
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Marlow sometimes disregards the law, but his aim is always justice.
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Please disregard any notes written in the margins.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For all the lucrative prospects, owners could not disregard the risks.
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It disregards entirely the far more effective role of democratic self-government at the state and local levels.
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The fear is that women who have a negative mammogram will disregard contrary evidence such as feeling a lump, Bredt said.
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They were so keen to get to grips with the enemy that they disregarded much of the training in stealth and guile.
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This phenomenon, in which an animal responds to a repeated stimulus by eventually disregarding it, is familiar to everyone.
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Yet on the other hand governments were quite willing to disregard clearly expressed public feeling when this seemed in the national interest.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complete
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He led a rather monastic, reclusive lifestyle and displayed a complete disregard for personal gain.
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The whole beauty of the trading floor was its complete disregard for tenure.
total
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Yet when in action he was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for his own personal safety.
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Others are sponsored by ambitious federal agencies, sometimes with total disregard for the recommendations of other arms of government.
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It suddenly occurred to her that total disregard of her escapade was a very subtle punishment indeed.
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She withdrew more and more completely, and displayed total disregard for her own well-being.
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But however can one conceive of this happening without a total disregard for humanity?
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The total disregard for law and order made it difficult to identify which attacks were political and which were not.
■ VERB
show
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But by marginalising its rusticity thus, Emmerdale's producers showed a disregard for what people want from their televisual Yorkshire.
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It all looks simple on paper, but weathered roads show blatant disregard for the intentions of cartographers.
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He was careless of his own safety and showed wanton disregard for everyone else.
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Seniors and the disabled also have complained that some skateboarders show disregard for pedestrians.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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You have shown a total disregard for the law and for public safety.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Agricultural subsidies and a thoughtless disregard for natural processes are washing away the commonwealth of land, its soils and wildlife.
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But however can one conceive of this happening without a total disregard for humanity?
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Flagrant disregard for the evidence freely available in libraries at home and abroad was self-defeating.
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The first is to change what is called the earnings disregard .
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Will we display more of the statesmanship, selflessness, and disregard for monetary advantage associated with public service and professional responsibility?
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Yevdoxia revealed the same blend of feelings: the two women had a healthy disregard for each other.