unobserving

Example Sentences

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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

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

On the steamer there was a mild young missionary coming out, for the first time, to whom some unobserving friend had given a fox-terrier.

From The Congo and Coasts of Africa by Davis, Richard Harding

I fancy it was in one of your most decided unobserving fits that you took me for a blockhead.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

"A smart fellow," repeated her father musingly, flicking some dust from his shoes, unobserving of her abstraction.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil