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Meanings of inadvertence in English

Spanish
imprudencia

The trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities.

imprudencia
Portuguese
desatenção
Catalan
inadvertència

An unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something.

desatenção
Usage of inadvertence in English
1
But many a true word is said in the Press by inadvertence.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919
2
I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie.
Victory: An Island Tale
3
But they are really only by a kind of automatic inadvertence, pictures.
French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
4
The Board pointed out Thomas Hardie's inadvertence in not answering No.
Hard Cash
5
If such an expression can be found, it has been dropped by inadvertence.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
6
Nor on any later occasions, except through inadvertence, did they talk of home.
The Lost Road
7
But Charmian, why she did not know, felt increasing regret for her inadvertence.
The Way of Ambition
8
By what strange inadvertence has this rough draft found its way to us?
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
9
Whether intentional or an inadvertence of the thing's impossible presence, Sena's equations remained unsolved.
The last page
10
I erred by inadvertence; I should have set a special watch on the boy.
The Unwilling Vestal
11
Perhaps it was through mere inadvertence that the other six did not accompany it.
King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
12
This omission cannot have been the effect of mere inadvertence.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
13
I will not deal with not things at all, except by accident and inadvertence.
First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life
14
And yet, but for this characteristic little inadvertence, he would never have known it.
The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
15
Not one has ever, even through inadvertence, addressed to me a single ungenerous word.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series
16
The least inadvertence may rob us of the public favor, so hard to be acquired.
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 / Revised, Enlarged, and ...
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Translations for inadvertence
Portuguese
desatenção
Inadvertence through the time
Inadvertence across language varieties
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