inadvertency
noun
inadvertencies
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pluralof inadvertency.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
I intend to show, before I have done, that there are many such inadvertencies in his work; the younger Edwards himself being the judge.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
A thousand accidents, contingencies, inadvertencies, may lead to the very complications which all of the European powers, except Spain, are anxious to avoid.
From Porto Rico Its History, Products and Possibilities... by Arthur D. Hall
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 Charles Babbage
