inadvertencies
- plural of inadvertency.
Example Sentences
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On the trip, by a series of stumbling inadvertencies, he runs down a murder story and falls in love.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, in our era of carefully crafted images, these electronic inadvertencies and other unmasked asides carried out of the White House by listeners form a valuable body of presidential lore.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the impression left by this and others of Mrs. Haywood's works is that the fair novelist was not so much interested in preventing the inadvertencies of her sex as in exposing them.
From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie
"Shut up!" "—it is one of the strangest inadvertencies you ever heard of, Mr. Bullard, but the fact remains that, eighteen months ago, I delivered to you—not the originals but copies—" Bullard wheeled round.
From Till the Clock Stops by Bell, J. J. (John Joy)
It would be unwise, as well as ungrateful, to judge severely of the inadvertencies, or even of the negligence of such persons: nothing but weighty causes should justify such a course.
From Reflections on the Decline of Science in England by Babbage, Charles
