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

Oh! perfectly.—You mean, then, to confess that the doing so was unwatchful and unfriendly: and, indeed, I think it was.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs

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 corridor was dark and silent but not unwatchful.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James