Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or habit of being inadvertent.
- noun An instance of being inadvertent; an oversight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or character of being inadvertent; inattention; negligence; heedlessness.
- noun An effect of inattention; an oversight, mistake, or fault proceeding from mental negligence.
- noun Synonyms Oversight, etc. See
negligence .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence.
- noun An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
inadvertent ;inadvertency ;heedlessness ;carelessness ;negligence . - noun An
effect orresult ofinattention ; anoversight ormistake fromnegligence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
- noun an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is sometimes said by those who should know better that there was no intention to give such great-powers to the Province or Dominion, and that the B.N. A. Act was passed as it were in inadvertence.
Some Remarks on the Constitution of Canada and the United States 1910
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He did inform Mr. Fish, at any rate, on the 30th of July, and alleged "inadvertence" as the reason for his omission to do it before.
John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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He did inform Mr. Fish, at any rate, on the 30th of July, and alleged "inadvertence" as the reason for his omission to do it before.
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 2 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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He did inform Mr. Fish, at any rate, on the 30th of July, and alleged "inadvertence" as the reason for his omission to do it before.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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He did inform Mr. Fish, at any rate, on the 30th of July, and alleged "inadvertence" as the reason for his omission to do it before.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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"inadvertence" requirement, such a conclusion is inconsistent with
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"Was it the result of oversight or inadvertence or were there some employees in the company that were doing this without your knowledge or..." asked Cornyn R-Texas.
HUFFPOST HILL - Google Probably Not Plus-1ing Today's News Eliot Nelson 2011
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He plays Harry Lockhart, a petty crook from New York who, by lurid inadvertence, is taken first for an actor, then for a private eye.
Stylish Spectacle Makes This 'Mission' Possible Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Charles E. Grassley Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, initiated an inquiry to determine whether guns traveled to Mexico through inadvertence or deliberate policy on the part of U.S. law enforcement.
U.S. let guns fall into drug cartels' hands, files show 2011
BrainyBabe commented on the word inadvertence
"A certain City gentleman, a man of exemplary character and simple tastes, modest, retiring, industrious, friend to animals, ex-scoutmaster, and good son to his mother, had absent-mindedly issued to the public an alarming amount of debenture scrip which, through some clerical inadvertence, was worth less than the paper it was printed on." -- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931.
December 24, 2008