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 J. R. (James Russell) Miller
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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 Harlan Page Halsey
