Thesaurus / inattentive

inattentive

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There’ll be a cause of it, and there’ll be a vehicle code attached to the cause, if it’s inattentive driving or whatever the case may be.

He’s also a philandering husband and inattentive father to his two adult daughters.

There came but one thing to grieve the tempers of our members—the service was slip-shod, inattentive, vile.

Who else would be as charmingly unconscious and inattentive as this American vagabond!

The Chamber sat still out of respect, but as a fact the members were inattentive.

Again, those thus affected are quite as likely to be the dull or inattentive as the studious.

England, though apparently apathetic and inactive, was not inattentive to the situation.

Must be delivered to-night or never; so worked it off, speaking for an hour in almost empty and sadly inattentive House.

Mrs. Deering, bent above a pile of dis-collared shirts, shook an inattentive head.

Managers will be obstinate; actors are bent on display—the audience is inattentive and unruly.

APRIL 17, 2021

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