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Unwatchful

adjective
1.
Not alert to what is potentially dangerous.  Synonyms: unalert, unvigilant.






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"Unwatchful" Quotes from Famous Books



... at her startled, spilled much tobacco down the front of him, stopped to brush it away and let the lazy breeze snatch the tiny oblong of paper from between his unwatchful fingers. Of course, she was joshing him, he thought uneasily, as he separated the leaves of his cigarette book by blowing gently upon them, and singled out another paper. "Are yuh so new to the country that it's anything of ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower

... creatures about them, they now crept stealthily, following the trails, or lying in ambush, waiting for the unsuspicious flock to wing past. And when they found that the game, yesterday so abundant and unwatchful, had to-day almost wholly disappeared, they were indignant, and wished that they had anticipated the season ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts



Words linked to "Unwatchful" :   unwary, alert



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