unwatchful
Example Sentences
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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
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)
They were not sitting in a waiting half circle—they were scattered, unwatchful.
From Chip, of the Flying U by Russell, Charles M.
It must not be supposed that the professor’s friends were unwatchful.
From Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
