obliviousness
Example Sentences
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Pigossi’s self-obsessed novelist, however, is perfectly pitched in his all-around obliviousness.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
Identifying behaviors that make us recoil, like self-absorption and obliviousness, requires an ironic amount of self-reflection.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2023
Someday this chapter may be viewed as fascinating for its obliviousness and, from a public relations standpoint, its recklessness.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2023
Then there’s that hysterical part of it, the idea that 75 percent of this Final Four hails from places known for obliviousness about sports.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023
But it was Lola’s briskness, her obliviousness to anything beyond her own business, and Briony’s certainty that her own feelings would not even register, still less provoke guilt, which gave her the strength to resist.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
