0 careless and not doing a duty well enough:
[ + to infinitive ] It was remiss of me to forget to give you the message.
1 not doing a duty carefully or well enough:
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention it.
It would have been remiss of me to ignore a particular case which had been mentioned.
It would be remiss of us not to take account of those changes in reassessing our support helicopter requirement.
It would be remiss of us, when debating the amendment at such length, not to mention fire safety.
Therefore, we would be remiss if we failed to state that the overarching implication for policy is reducing the number of infants and young children in poor-quality institutional care.
We can at least be responsible for our interpretations and try to make current archaeological findings available for other audiences, and this is something we have been rather remiss about.
While primary sources sometimes acknowledge that ' preaspiration ' is indeed a cover term for a variety of phonetic configurations, the secondary literature is typically remiss in carefully documenting this variability.
Advertising is particularly remiss when dealing with age.
Given the rate at which new developments in parasitology are appearing this seems a little remiss to me.
