Uncared For

Wicked stepmother; depressed absent father; at age 8, mothered her uncared-for baby sister, who grew up believing that my mother was her mother; a teenage beauty; A+ high school student; career and college desires deleted by family enslavement. ❋ Dr. Cheryl Pappas (2011)

Appalled by the problem of the uncared-for, the government enacts measures that give them insurance coverage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Salamanders would not have allowed him to lie there uncared-for. ❋ Ryn Cricket (2010)

From a regional base in the lakeside town of Sevan -- a collection of glum Soviet buildings scattered over a high plateau, with a decrepit ferris wheel strangely creaking in the wind at its entrance -- young Belgian psychologist Dr. Luk Van Baelen leads me on a journey into the dark world of the uncared-for mind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I grew up on the Sussex coast in the 1970s and 80s, a period when seasonal crowds ebbed away, hotels were left to rot before "spontaneously" burning down, and B&Bs valiantly tried to fill vacancies by providing sanctuaries for the uncared-for in the community. ❋ Travis Elborough (2010)

There's a small, unkempt, uncared-for garden at the back, south-facing, running up to the embankment of the District & Piccadilly line; the landlady's daughter, who showed me round, practically skipped with delight when I asked tentatively if I might do a little gardening. ❋ Imogen (2009)

The best and brightest man of his generation, who with talents immeasurably beyond any of his contemporaries, with industry that has often sickened me to witness it, with everything in his favor but blind luck, hounded by disaster from his cradle, with none of the joy of life to which he was entitled, dying at last, with nameless suffering, alone and uncared-for in a California tavern. ❋ Patricia O'Toole (2008)

An uncared-for environment invites vandalism, and a downward spiral is set in motion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, when Lafayette returned to Fredericksburg in 1825, he saw only an uncared-for small marble tombstone in the middle of a cornfield. ❋ Maggiemac (2008)

A few years ago the Soul in the City project drew in thousands of young volunteers in Manchester and then in London, reclaiming uncared-for space, such as half-derelict adventure playgrounds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some urban development has created desolate and uncared-for cityscapes, in which people do not want to spend time and which are distant from where anyone lives. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If we find during our inspection that the lawn is going uncared-for, we leave a written notice, a warning. ❋ Robert G. Allen (2006)

The uncaring [bastard] never [gave] a [damn]. ❋ Trippin (2004)