DISREGARD


Meaning of DISREGARD in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

flagrant disregard

a flagrant disregard for the law

ignore/disregard sb’s advice (= not do what someone tells you )

The accident happened because she ignored their advice.

reckless disregard

a reckless disregard for safety

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

By disregarding speed limits and passing red lights, we somehow got to the airport in time.

Marlow sometimes disregards the law, but his aim is always justice.

Please disregard any notes written in the margins.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For all the lucrative prospects, owners could not disregard the risks.

It disregards entirely the far more effective role of democratic self-government at the state and local levels.

The fear is that women who have a negative mammogram will disregard contrary evidence such as feeling a lump, Bredt said.

They were so keen to get to grips with the enemy that they disregarded much of the training in stealth and guile.

This phenomenon, in which an animal responds to a repeated stimulus by eventually disregarding it, is familiar to everyone.

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

He led a rather monastic, reclusive lifestyle and displayed a complete disregard for personal gain.

The whole beauty of the trading floor was its complete disregard for tenure.

total

Yet when in action he was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for his own personal safety.

Others are sponsored by ambitious federal agencies, sometimes with total disregard for the recommendations of other arms of government.

It suddenly occurred to her that total disregard of her escapade was a very subtle punishment indeed.

She withdrew more and more completely, and displayed total disregard for her own well-being.

But however can one conceive of this happening without a total disregard for humanity?

The total disregard for law and order made it difficult to identify which attacks were political and which were not.

■ VERB

show

But by marginalising its rusticity thus, Emmerdale's producers showed a disregard for what people want from their televisual Yorkshire.

It all looks simple on paper, but weathered roads show blatant disregard for the intentions of cartographers.

He was careless of his own safety and showed wanton disregard for everyone else.

Seniors and the disabled also have complained that some skateboarders show disregard for pedestrians.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

You have shown a total disregard for the law and for public safety.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Agricultural subsidies and a thoughtless disregard for natural processes are washing away the commonwealth of land, its soils and wildlife.

But however can one conceive of this happening without a total disregard for humanity?

Flagrant disregard for the evidence freely available in libraries at home and abroad was self-defeating.

The first is to change what is called the earnings disregard .

Will we display more of the statesmanship, selflessness, and disregard for monetary advantage associated with public service and professional responsibility?

Yevdoxia revealed the same blend of feelings: the two women had a healthy disregard for each other.

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