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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

It must not be supposed that the professor's friends were unwatchful.

From Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

But as time went on even John's unwatchful eye could not fail to notice that all was not well with his father.

From David Harum A Story of American Life by Westcott, Edward Noyes

Then there are beetles, locusts, grasshoppers, and all the rest of the army of trouble-makers who wait to steal a march on the unwatchful planter.

From Carl and the Cotton Gin by Bassett, Sara Ware