forgetful

The explanation in every case is oversight and forgetfulness, not malice.
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Don Melchior and his friend took advantage of this moment of forgetfulness.
The Rebel Chief|Gustave Aimard
Surely he has ruined my life sufficiently in the past to let me have a few years, if not of pleasure, at least of forgetfulness.'
Madame Midas|Fergus Hume
He who will hereafter be so often amazed at his own forgetfulness has already forgotten.
The Contemporary Review, January 1883|Various

She found at last that forgetfulness came not of prayer and fasting; that it was not in her to forget.
Red Pottage|Mary Cholmondeley
The darkness lingers late, sleep comes at last and drowns our fancies in forgetfulness.
The English in the West Indies|James Anthony Froude

British Dictionary definitions for forgetfulness

forgetful

/ (fəˈɡɛtfʊl) /

adjective

tending to forget

(often postpositive foll by of) inattentive (to) or neglectful (of)

poetic causing loss of memory

Derived forms of forgetful

forgetfully, adverbforgetfulness, noun

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forgetful

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