watchful
adjective
vigilant or alert; closely observant.
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
He seemed to be perfectly at ease, confident, deliberate, and unwatchful.
From 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer
Its once grim bulwarks, tamed to lovers' walks, Look down unwatchful on the sliding Eure, Whose listless leisure suits the quiet place, Lisping among his shallows homelike sounds At Concord and by Bankside heard before.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
He had made a feast for them and Thor had been unwatchful.
From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Willy Pogany
