unwatchful

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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

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

It must not be supposed that the professor’s friends were unwatchful.

From Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The ravening kite so swoops and plunders, when   Hovering above the shelterd yard, she spies   A helpless chicken near unwatchful hen,   Who vainly dins the thief with after cries.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart