inadvertency
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Leak Investigation 1 appears to have stemmed from mistake, inadvertency and laziness.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
Mr. Norton truly grieved at his inadvertency in disturbing the household at this late hour of the night, begged pardon, and told Mrs. McNab he would not be guilty of a like offence.
From Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Mrs. William T. Savage
By some peculiar inadvertency, as he was in the middle of one of his own adventures, his finger touched the burglar alarm.
From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath
Most mistakes arose from inadvertency: many from unfortunate design.
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Edward Miller
In many instances, perhaps in the majority, young persons are guilty of this misconduct through inadvertency.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Francis Augustus Cox
On the trip, by a series of stumbling inadvertencies, he runs down a murder story and falls in love.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, in our era of carefully crafted images, these electronic inadvertencies and other unmasked asides carried out of the White House by listeners form a valuable body of presidential lore.
From Time Magazine Archive
These be sharp words:11 but what does the Reader imagine may be the probable "result" of the English Traveller's inadvertencies?...
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
I intend to show, before I have done, that there are many such inadvertencies in his work; the younger Edwards himself being the judge.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
These are all-comprehensive, and are therefore the departments into which philosophy is divided, for the sole end of philosophy is to correct the inadvertencies of ordinary thinking.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
