Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by or resulting from carelessness; negligent.
- adjective Not deliberate or considered; unintentional: synonym: careless.
- adjective Not intending to be so; unwitting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not properly attentive; heedless; careless; negligent.
- Unconscious; unintentional; accidental.
- Synonyms Inattentive, unobservant, thoughtless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not
intentional ; noton purpose ; notconscious
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
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Examples
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"In times of organizational change or chaos, we're much more likely to see those kinds of leaks -- what I call inadvertent disclosures," Dartmouth College management professor Eric Johnson says.
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After Obama nominated him to lead the TSA, Southers gave one account of the incident in a sworn congressional affidavit on Oct. 22, but four weeks later he apologized for what he described as inadvertent inconsistencies in his recollection.
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This suggests the existence of another source of long-term inadvertent and unintentional hormonal exposure common among men and women to support a common etiology between prostate and breast cancer.
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‘But I would never take lightly a serious allegation backed up by evidence that there was a willful — and I emphasize willful, inadvertent is something else — willful disclosure, and I haven’t seen any evidence.’
Think Progress » Kristol: ‘Sudden’ Goss Resignation Prompted By ‘Something That Popped This Week’ 2006
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The historians said these things though she had acknowledged supposedly "'inadvertent'" copying, and her claimed reasons for the plagiarized portions of her work were, as said, "implausibl [e]."
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Mountain View, California-based Google called the inadvertent three-year-long collection
Ars Technica 2010
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Connecticut and states including Massachusetts and Illinois are demanding information on what Google calls the inadvertent gathering of data from wireless networks, such as e-mail and passwords, as it took pictures of streets and houses for its Street View service.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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Mountain View, California-based Google called the inadvertent three-year-long collection
Ars Technica 2010
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We also tend to test those cognitive skills that we consider most relevant, which means that real life might provide the cohort with what could be termed inadvertent practice.
Ars Technica 2009
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Iowa associate athletic director Fred Mims said in the school's official response to the NCAA that the violations were "inadvertent" and that steps have been taken to ensure it won't happen again.
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