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

The corridor was dark and silent but not unwatchful.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James

The picture and doom of the unwatchful servant.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander

Sometimes for days he was lamblike in his obedience, touching in his muzzling affection till Weary was lulled into unwatchful love for the horse.

From The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by Bower, B. M.