unwatchful

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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

Our hero had worked his own trick, as stated—he stole a hand so deftly that the unwatchful robbers did not see him do it, and it was there he had them.

From A Desperate Chance The Wizard Tramp's Revelation, a Thrilling Narrative by Halsey, Harlan Page

Then there are beetles, locusts, grasshoppers, and all the rest of the army of trouble-makers who wait to steal a march on the unwatchful planter.

From Carl and the Cotton Gin by Bassett, Sara Ware

The foundryworker, in casting the great iron supports for a bridge, is unwatchful for an instant, and a bubble of air makes a flaw.

From Making the Most of Life by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)