How to say "disregard" in Japanese

• なおざりCommon
  noun, na-adjectiveCovers disregard in the sense of neglect: treating a duty, rule, or person too lightly and doing things half-heartedly. Typical when work, safety, or someone's feelings are handled in a careless, offhand way.
  彼かれらは自分じぶんたちの義務ぎむをなおざりにはしなかった。↗

  They didn't neglect their own duty.
• 不在ふざいJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun (suffix)Really means absence; the disregard gloss covers indifference, a state in which attention or concern is simply absent. Seldom the word you want for an act of disregarding something.
• 切り捨てるきりすてるCommon
  ichidan verb, transitive verbA verb: to disregard by cutting something off and leaving it behind — writing off people, opinions, or complaints as not worth considering. Fits when someone is abandoned or discarded as expendable.
  もう少すこしやさしく意見いけんしてあげたらどうなの。一刀両断いっとうりょうだんのもと切り捨きりすてられた彼かれの立場たちばも考かんがえてよ。↗

  Why don't you try expressing your opinion a little more gently? Think about how he feels getting told flatly that he's being cut loose.

Use 「なおざり」 for neglectful, half-hearted disregard of duties or rules, 「切り捨てる」 for deliberately writing someone or something off, and 不在 for indifference as a state of mental absence rather than an act.

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• なおざりneglect
• 差し置くさしおくto leave as is
• 不問に付すふもんにふすto ignore (a fault, misstep, issue, etc.)
• 閑却かんきゃくnegligence
• おろそかにするto neglect
• 不問に付するふもんにふするto ignore (a fault, misstep, issue, etc.)
• 無下にするむげにするto not make good use of (e.g. advice)
• 等閑とうかんneglect
• 嫌うきらうto disregard
• 不在ふざいdisregard
• 切り捨てるきりすてるto abandon
• 黙すもだすto disregard
• 目を背けるめをそむけるto disregard
• 切って捨てるきってすてるto abandon