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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unobserved
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mr. Fong was able to enter the building unobserved.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unobserved

1610s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of observe (v.).

Wiktionary
unobserved

a. not seen or observed adv. whilst not being seen or observed

WordNet
unobserved
  1. adj. not observed [syn: unseen]

  2. not observed; "managed to slip away unobserved"

Usage examples of "unobserved".

Hidden by the calamites which now spilled across the balconythe effort of cutting them back had long seemed pointlessKerans watched him unobserved.

If you could manage to slip out unobserved, I would engage to disguise you in such a manner that no one would know you.

Unfortunately, Fera never left her unobserved for long enough to retrieve them.

But early in the evening of that same day, at the corners of quiet streets, in the covered ways, by the doors of bazaars, among the horses tethered in the fondaks, wheresoever two men could stand and talk unheard and unobserved by a third, one secret message of twofold significance passed with the voice of smothered joy from lip to lip.

Raisin visited Kuta about once every two weeks, whenever they could get together and whenever they dared to risk it, moving cautiously along the path to make sure they were unobserved and looking in his window to see if he was alone.

Now, even with superb eyesight, he began to have trouble locating places to lay over during the day, spots along the shore where he might hope to pass the daylight hours entirely unobserved.

Slipping out of harbour unobserved in the night in his fastest sailing praam, he escaped to Trincomalee in Ceylon, where the East India Company decided to allow him to remain undisturbed.

Collecting Raggball, the bodyguard, they went together unobserved, leaving the palace by a side gate as the Signatory had done before.

Old man Taglia walks at this hour, unobserved, his house dark and asleep.

In the horrified silence Tarantella scuttled unobserved out through the open kitchen door.

The wish to possess myself of it at once got hold of me, and seeing myself unobserved I took my opportunity and hid it in my pocket.

So that it would even seem that consciousness tends to blunt the activities upon which it is exercised, and that in the degree in which these pass unobserved they are purer and have more effect, more vitality, and that, consequently, the Sage arrived at this state has the truer fulness of life, life not spilled out in sensation but gathered closely within itself.

When he was sure of being unobserved, he tried whispering commands to whatever uncaught fish might be lurking in the nearby river, the same words that had worked so beautifully with chickens and watchdogsbut the effort failed completely.

Alone, unobserved by either Walder or the secret throng, Armand Lenfell could relax and reveal himself for what he really was - a man with crime at heart.

They gave courteous smiles as they rose from their morning table, nodding to the waiters and the other guests, but when they felt themselves to be unobserved, their mansuetude faded and expressions of the utmost dolour fell upon them.