Example Sentences

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People who say L.A. has no seasons are unobservant dunces.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021

She and Al are classic opposites: he is internal and unobservant and can disappear into his head for days at a time; Suzanne is chatty and social and hyper-present.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2020

Motoya’s book beguiles with its reversals: the bodybuilder’s husband may be unobservant to the point of eeriness, but, as it turns out, she is the shape-shifter, the trickster.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2018

His open-ended questions assess local ecological knowledge, and the test functions as a wake-up call for the unobservant.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2015

I glanced at Sander and knew from the stunned look on his face that, like me, he had guessed the truth that Nick was either too slow-witted or too unobservant to see.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood