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Meanings of inadvertency in English
Spanish
imprudencia The trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities.
Synonyms
Examples for "heedlessness"
Examples for "heedlessness"
1
What had been done was done in heedlessness and not by intention.
2
Their reckoning draweth nigh for mankind, while they turn away in heedlessness.
3
The heedlessness of George brought his purse to a state of emptiness.
4
How long will ye wander in the wilderness of heedlessness and superstition?
5
If camp regulations are violated, it seems to be usually through heedlessness.
1
But many a true word is said in the Press by inadvertence.
2
I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie.
3
But they are really only by a kind of automatic inadvertence, pictures.
4
The Board pointed out Thomas Hardie's inadvertence in not answering No.
5
If such an expression can be found, it has been dropped by inadvertence.
Usage of inadvertency in English
1
However, we ran them over with a mutual inadvertency of one another.
2
Occasionally he offends, through inadvertency, the usages of the country.
3
The delay, doubtless, was simply owing to inadvertency on the part of subordinate agents.
4
Never was there such a picture of human inadvertency!
5
In many instances, perhaps in the majority, young persons are guilty of this misconduct through inadvertency.
6
We could not control such an inadvertency.
7
Have a care for the cuffs-a little inadvertency with the soup may ruin my prospects for a job.
8
Our lover, imputing his behaviour to inadvertency, informed the gentleman of his mistake, and civilly desired he would rectify his error.
9
General Taylor, by an inadvertency strange to pass to a second edition, is represented as putting down the South-Carolina Nullifiers in 1838.
10
By some peculiar inadvertency, as he was in the middle of one of his own adventures, his finger touched the burglar alarm.
11
Sensible in my inadvertency, and most willing to contribute what I could towards the continuation of feudal authority, 'Very true,' said I.
12
The car started and then by an unfortunate inadvertency Sir Richmond pulled the gear lever over from the first speed to the reverse.
13
He remained, therefore, continually shut up in his laboratory, watching his furnace; for a moment's inadvertency might once more defeat all his expectations.
14
It was believed to be in fresco, on a wall which afterward, by some strange neglect or inadvertency, had been covered with whitewash.
15
Containing several curious night-adventures, in which Mr Adams fell into many hair-breadth 'scapes, partly owing to his goodness, and partly to his inadvertency.
16
It is not easy for the mind to put off those confused notions and prejudices it has imbibed from custom, inadvertency, and common conversation.
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