inadvertent

Perhaps an inadvertent word has descended to posterity.

assuredly not," returned the gentleman, recognizing the face of an acquaintance, with an animation he could not conceal: "but how inadvertent I have been, not to have noticed Miss Osgood before!"--While speaking, his eyes rested on the lovely countenance of her friend, as if, by their direction, he meant to explain the reason of his remissness.

An autobiography, when confronted by a careful editor with documentary evidence, is usually found to be full of obviously inadvertent errors.

'I hope, Miss Wade,' she returned, instantly assuming the tone of superiority she had always so thinly concealed, 'that nothing I have ever said or done since we have been together, has justified your use of that disagreeable word, "Mistress." It must have been wholly inadvertent on my part.

Incidentally he was having some hot coffee and pie in an untidy inadvertent manner, with an eye fluttering nervously over the side of the car.

There was an effect of drollery in her behaviour to these subjects of her zeal, whom she seemed to regard as a care, but not as an interest; it was as if they had been entrusted to her honour and she had engaged to convey them safe to a certain point; she was detached and inadvertent, and then suddenly remembered, repented and came back to tuck them into their blankets, to alter the position of her mother's umbrella, to tell them something about the run of the ship.

The boy, also, after a week or two of mental disquiet, began to gratify his protectors by many inadvertent proofs that he considered them as parents, and their house as home.

A casual or inadvertent word; the accidental dropping or turning of a card, with the accompanying anxiety or carelessness in regard to its concealment; the counting of the tricks, with the order of their arrangement; embarrassment, hesitation, eagerness or trepidation - all afford, to his apparently intuitive perception, indications of the true state of affairs.

Danny Drinkwater had an inadvertent hand in Grigg's leveller when his attempt to cut out a Denver Hume pass fell straight into the path of the unmarked striker in the area.

Summary: Dabolim (Goa) [India], June 8 (ANI): Flight operations re-commenced at Dabolim airport on Saturday after a brief pause caused by "inadvertent jettisoning" of the external drop tank of a Naval Mig-29K aircraft.

The nine-step technique for getting out of inadvertent IMC ("Survive Inadvertent IMC The Old-Fashioned Way," April) could guarantee that a low-time, non-instrument pilot will crash and burn.

Abdul Nasser Hemmati, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran, went to Ferdowsi Square in an inadvertent manner to closely monitor the foreign exchange market situation, Trend's correspondent reported from the scene.