What is "inadvertent"

Usage examples of "inadvertent".

Like the good team of lawyers they were they had begun to chop him out of his inadvertent contract with the Nastic vessel.

He has copies of the history books that had recently come under a cloud due to their sloppy scholarship and supposedly inadvertent plagiarism of earlier sources.

The Phaolonian princeling would blame himself for having been the inadvertent cause of any peril that befell me.

Even a gadgety spy movie was better than sitting in his stuffy room with its thin walls, an inadvertent eavesdropper to the drinking parties and arguments in the other rooms.

Roseate or sombre your humour as you patrol the reefs, it is liable to be changed in a flash into clashing tints by inadvertent contact with a warty ghoul of a sea-urchin, a single one of whose agonising spines never fails to bring you face to face with one of the vividest realities of life.

MacDonald has done you in, although in so doing he has done me an inadvertent service.

They sat, occasionally with an inadvertent gasp at the terrifying proximity to a space obstacle large enough to crush them, clinging to the armrests of their seats, and grateful for the safety belts that held them in place.

He stifled an inadvertent gasp as blood rushed to his fingers, causing excruciating pain.

One slip, one inadvertent noise, would wake the giant, and he doubted any of the feeble explanations he'd concocted would save him then.

These initial tactics had one purpose only - to move from where he'd been as he came into the room, lest Mike take advantage of the inadvertent sounds Drew made and attack while he was still unprepared.

In the meantime please note that he of your number whose inadvertent animal husbandry has led to the citys present unfortunate predicament may find himself the victim of unwanted attentions from his escaped charge.

In the meantime please note that he of your number whose inadvertent animal husbandry has led to the city’.

The world would need additional decades, and the inadvertent discovery of cosmic background radiation by Penzias and Wilson at their hissing antenna in New Jersey, before the Big Bang would begin to move from interesting idea to established theory.

My pulse beat faster as I realized that I must not through inadvertent attempts at wit seal up the future fount of honour.

Depletion of the ozone layer, global warming from an increased greenhouse effect, and global cooling from nuclear war are all ways in which present technology can significantly alter the environment of our world-and in each case as an inadvertent consequence of doing something else.