unwatchful
- a word derived from watchful.
Example Sentences
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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
The ravening kite so swoops and plunders, when Hovering above the shelterd yard, she spies A helpless chicken near unwatchful hen, Who vainly dins the thief with after cries.
From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart
Our hero had worked his own trick, as stated—he stole a hand so deftly that the unwatchful robbers did not see him do it, and it was there he had them.
From A Desperate Chance The Wizard Tramp's Revelation, a Thrilling Narrative by Halsey, Harlan Page
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
