unobserving

Example Sentences

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But, in a way, the most remarkable Hanukkah this year took place in Israel, where, along with the traditional gaiety, it brought a truce in a strange, bitter struggle between the orthodox and the unobserving.

From Time Magazine Archive

What is even more remarkable, all their work is built in the rigorously modern style still referred to as "crackpot" by unobserving standpatters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here the matter is made very plain, from comparing an evil, the progress of which is insidious, with the injurious consequences, which the most unobserving can easily trace to a parallel neglect.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose

Her left foot scraped the snow in making the awkward step, but she counted on Kate being unobserving enough to pass it over.

From The Lookout Man by Bower, B. M.

Mary Johnson must be unobserving in the extreme if she failed to know him, once she glimpsed him in the crowd.

From The Happy Family by Bower, B. M.