inobservant

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This might, by an inobservant reader, be confounded with the summons to the convocation, which is composed of the same constituent parts, and, by modern usage, is made to assemble on the same day.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

Of all this she appeared by no means inobservant, nor did it seem to displease her.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

The artist evidently moves in constraint, and the accessories of these domestic scenes are simply generalized as if by a child: the result of an inobservant eye for such things.”

From Mary Wollstonecraft by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

The most inobservant traveller in South Africa must be struck by the network of fortifications erected almost throughout the length and breadth of the country.

From In the Shadow of Death by Kritzinger, P. H.

That I may not be thought inobservant, forty-five yards a second is a pace which embarrasses sight.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford