inadvertency

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Leak Investigation 1 appears to have stemmed from mistake, inadvertency and laziness.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

By some peculiar inadvertency, as he was in the middle of one of his own adventures, his finger touched the burglar alarm.

From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold

It was strange, however, that he should betray himself by such an inadvertency.

From Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist by Brown, Charles Brockden

If I have happened to mistake through inadvertency, I entreat he will condescend to inform me, and point out the place, upon which I will immediately beg pardon both of him and the world.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan

Vossius has noticed the inadvertency or ignorance of Plautus in this drama, where, though the scene is laid in Epidaurus, he sends the parasite to Caria, and brings him back in four days.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John