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Example sentences for "unobservant"

Lexicographically close words:
unnoticed; unnumbered; uno; unobjectionable; unobscured; unobserved; unobserving; unobstructed; unobtainable; unobtrusive
  1. Of course, no woman could live in conjugal confidence with a man occasionally suffering in so remarkable a manner from hallucination or deceptive propensity, and be for any long period unobservant of the peculiarity.

  2. For a while the latter was unobservant of the inquisitorial survey with which he was regarded; the eyes of the parties, however, at length met.

  3. She was glad Mrs. Beaseley was rather an unobservant person, for Janice's eyes were tear-filled when she looked into the cottage kitchen.

  4. She returned to the Day house early on Sunday morning, and her unobservant aunt did not notice the marks the young girl's sleepless night had left upon her countenance.

  5. Ida hurried up stairs--threw herself upon the bed, and cried bitterly; unobservant of Rachel's presence.

  6. Naturally, the Sisters could not long remain unobservant of the change in Astrid's demeanour, and from awakened attention to discovery there lay but a step.

  7. In addition to this, it may be also supposed that the expectation of her father's arrival had some influence in rendering her unobservant of everything else.

  8. They present a marked contrast in physiognomy to the darkskinned and black-haired Greeks, and the most unobservant stranger would never take them for natives of the country.

  9. Mr. Beardsley explained that we would offend nobody, not even the actors, by paying no attention to the show, and as we could not understand the dialogue, we very soon became as careless and unobservant as anybody else.

  10. Not unobservant of the change, and putting his own interpretation upon it, Mr Dombey resumed: 'Mr Carker has been so good as to go down and secure a house there, for a time.

  11. Eric leaned over the desk with his head resting on a book, too stunned even to think; and Wildney looked straight before him, with his eyes fixed in a stupid and unobservant stare.

  12. Mrs Williams was not unobservant of the gradual but steady falling off in Eric's character, and the first thing she noticed was the blunting of his home affections.

  13. The most unobservant traveller in Egypt cannot help perceiving that its sole industry is agriculture, and that the bulk of its inhabitants are tillers of the soil.

  14. An imaginative writer once called Port Said the Venice of Africa--not a very happy description, as the essentially modern appearance of this coaling station strikes the most unobservant visitor.

  15. He is unobservant of passing events, because he neither clearly apprehends them, now that his connection with the outer world is in a measure interrupted by the decay of sense, nor does he much care about them, for the same reason.

  16. But around us in nature, along our daily paths, are the works of a greater Artist, and no intelligent and thoughtful mind need be unobservant of their beauty.

  17. He talked pleasantly, and looked remarkably unobservant till they reached the hotel, where he parted from Dion.

  18. Always singularly unconscious of herself she seemed at this period to be also unobservant of those about her.

  19. Her face was quiet, but all the intelligence and character which her gayety and small stature and young loveliness veiled from unobservant eyes were clearly revealed now.

  20. So she gave him a look that passed muster with his unobservant eyes.

  21. Yet Sergius went his way unobservant of the remarks drawn by the elephantine ears of his outlandish hood, his tall form, and impeded step.

  22. Suffer me to help my Lord yet a little more," the Prince continued, apparently unobservant of the lowering face behind the crucifix.

  23. Ferdinand had not been unobservant of all these expeditionary movements, and they were quite as threatening to the Spanish supremacy in the New World as his own personal defection was to the dejected Admiral.

  24. The subtle is so often the obvious that to be unobservant is a social duty.

  25. The Hotel of the Old Shooting gallery stands on the Toornoifeld and the unobservant may pass by without distinguishing it from the private houses on either side.

  26. I may have appeared unobservant and unthankful; may have seemed to accept your benefits as if they were my due, when, in reality, I was unworthy of the least of them all; but it was because I did not know in what form to express my gratitude.

  27. Unobservant of the gravity of one of the parties to the broken dialogue, and the forced liveliness of the other, the hostess dashed into a profusely illustrated description of the contretemps that had detained her in her dressing-room.

  28. Unobservant as he was in most things, he was more clear-sighted in regard to matters of love, than any other affection of the human mind.

  29. Sir Philip Hastings, as the reader already knows, was a somewhat unobservant man of what was passing around him in the world.

  30. Unobservant as was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not understand, agitated her.

  31. As her uncle was too unobservant in general to detect his disguise, he made a sign for her to command herself, and continued rowing as if nothing had occurred.

  32. It is not to be supposed that Raoul Yvard and his followers were unobservant of what was passing.

  33. Walter, careless or unobservant of the deep blush that mantled the maiden's face.

  34. But long continued solitude had rendered her as taciturn and unobservant as if she had been born deaf and blind.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unobservant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    careless; disregardful; distracted; heedless; inadvertent; inattentive; inconstant; incurious; indifferent; negligent; nonconforming; regardless; thoughtless; unfaithful; unheedful; unmindful; unobservant; unobserving; untrue