unwatchful
Example Sentences
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In a long-anticipated report released Monday, Wells Fargo & Co. pinned the blame for its unauthorized-accounts scandal on weak corporate oversight, an unwatchful former CEO and the executive who led the bank’s community banking division.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2017
Much of this occurred under the unwatchful eyes of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, the last Presidents who were able to practice the preachment that government rules best by governing least.
From Time Magazine Archive
A man of the breadth of acquaintance, of the breadth of interests, that was John Schuyler's may not fall to desuetude unwatchful.
From A Fool There Was by Browne, Porter Emerson
Yet out of the many qualities every man has, and by which any man may be moved, a single passion may go mad in a mind unwatchful.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
The corridor was dark and silent but not unwatchful.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James
