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Meanings of unobservant in English

Not consciously observing.

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Usage of unobservant in English
1
He hates those who have valour merely, and are unobservant of propriety.
The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
2
He was not so commonplace, or so unobservant as I had imagined.
The Pomp of Yesterday
3
There was a sinister something behind that smile, but Maurice was unobservant.
The Puppet Crown
4
Apparently unobservant and easily deceived, they see with bright and horrible eyes.
In Defense of Women
5
To the unobservant, he seemed to be a lovable, useful, able man.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
6
Those men were the old and the experienced; the unobservant overlooked him altogether.
The Broken Road
7
She appeared quite unobservant of the children and nurse sleeping in the room.
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2
8
In the midst of my tears, I was not unobservant of his motions.
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
9
But there again is the difference between the observant and the unobservant man.
Across Coveted Lands; or, a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to C...
10
In the first flush of conquest all men are a trifle fatuous, unobservant.
Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
11
The Cardinal was not unobservant of the trend of Florentine affairs.
The Tragedies of the Medici
12
The man's gesture is intended to make Jack feel unobservant, and it works.
Black house
13
Even unobservant humans could detect that, though no one had mentioned it yet.
Mentats of Dune
14
Both Greeks and monks, judged by nineteenth-century standards, were unobservant of natural beauties.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
15
He was quite unobservant of the marked attention bestowed on him.
The Puppet Crown
16
And it has often irritated me that you were so unobservant.
The Plum Tree
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