unobservant

Example Sentences

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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

His open-ended questions assess local ecological knowledge, and the test functions as a wake-up call for the unobservant.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2015

The editors . . . are responsible as well, for being too indolent, timid or unobservant, if the reviewers are right.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2011

Astronomical amounts of bird crap covered the benches, but the couple didn’t seem to mind and bowling balls tend to be astoundingly unobservant.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia