unobservant
Example Sentences
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This tells me she is either remarkably unobservant or willing to mislead the public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Winkler knows her rom-com tropes, so Steph is not only a florist but also a journalist, albeit a fairly unobservant one.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
People who say L.A. has no seasons are unobservant dunces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
Motoya’s book beguiles with its reversals: the bodybuilder’s husband may be unobservant to the point of eeriness, but, as it turns out, she is the shape-shifter, the trickster.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
“I’m pretty unobservant and it only took me about a minute.”
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
