unwatchful

Example Sentences

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In a long-anticipated report released Monday, Wells Fargo & Co. pinned the blame for its unauthorized-accounts scandal on weak corporate oversight, an unwatchful former CEO and the executive who led the bank’s community banking division.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2017

Much of this occurred under the unwatchful eyes of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, the last Presidents who were able to practice the preachment that government rules best by governing least.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had made a feast for them and Thor had been unwatchful.

From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy

They were not sitting in a waiting half circle—they were scattered, unwatchful.

From Chip, of the Flying U by Russell, Charles M.

O God of mercy, when Thou inquirest after blood, let me be hidden in the cleft of that Rock so deeply cleft for unwatchful ministers!

From Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Whyte, Alexander