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UK
/ɪnɐdvˈɜːtənt/
]
[ US /ˌɪnædˈvɝtənt, ˌɪnədˈvɝtənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnædˈvɝtənt, ˌɪnədˈvɝtənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
an accidental shooting
with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table
accidental poisoning
How To Use inadvertent In A Sentence
- Some parenting patterns inadvertently support aggressive behavior in more subtle ways.
- I can't tell you how many times I've caught hell in several restaurants, laundromats, and arcades for inadvertently handing them a Canadian coin intermixed with the American stuff. Pizza Patr�n's Peculiar Pecuniary Peso-Paying Predicament
- The one quote that strikes me as quite unsound is the one at the very end, though of course it's always impossible to tell if some relevant context might have been inadvertently cut in the editing.
- The administrators should check that you would not inadvertently overfund your pension. Times, Sunday Times
- Backwards Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards.
- The twisted logic was inadvertently summed up by agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire, a loyal Sarkozy lieutenant, with the words: "When they remove all the pork from a restaurant open to the public, I think they fall into communalism, which is against the principles and spirit of the French republic. The Guardian World News
- They inadvertently got mixed up in a free fight involving some 20 people.
- Mr Whittaker added: ‘My conclusion is that she died an accidental death that was due in all probability to inadvertent overlaying.’
- As a result of centuries of both deliberate and inadvertent plant breeding, the varieties used today have little resemblance with their wild ancestors.
- While ostensibly the pie plate would serve to prevent the derailleur from inadvertently and tragically wandering into the spokes like a Nü-Fred jumping into the Gimbels Ride, in the absence of any sort of rear mech "rear mech" is Yiddish for derailleur--the "ch" is guttural I can only assume the pie plate is vestigial. New Customs: Changing Language, Changing Bikes