Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an inadvertent manner; heedlessly; carelessly; inconsiderately; unintentionally.
Wiktionary
- adv. Unintentionally, because of an oversight.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. without knowledge or intention
Examples
“I am utterly convinced that Rawls, perhaps inadvertently, is greatly responsible for the recent “everybody is a victim” nonsense.”
Libertarian Redistribution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Fact is, by putting this out there, McCain inadvertently dared the left to show their hypocrisy.”
“Ah, so Bernstein inadvertently lets slip his true opinion.”
“So, inadvertently, is it possible that you are being used to promote a meme?”
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“Interpretation the post's title inadvertently says it all”
“I'm talking, writes his name inadvertently on cakes and everything.”
“So we think, somehow, your name inadvertently was left off the list.”
“It seems that some of the documents that Sandy Berger carried away inadvertently from the National Archives while preparing for his 9/11 Commission testimony had to do with port and airport security, and John Kerry has, not suprisingly, urged that port and airport security be improved.”
“Joe Clark, a freelance disabled-rights activist, talks to the Toronto Star about the growing, positive trend of making TV and films accessible to the deaf and blind, and about the CRTC's (the Canadian equivalent of the FCC, which, among other things, regulates Canadian television/radio to ensure that a minimum proportion of the programming has "Canadian content") role in inadvertently undermining it:”
“Colorado's Shjon Podein inadvertently poked it in, lifting Edmonton into a 1-1 tie.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inadvertently’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Neww
specious, disdainfully, vehemently, in lieu of, dismissive, perpetual, preposterous, impasse, fathom, conversely, repugnant, clogged and 142 more...
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Need to Know!
elicit, educe, refute, cogency, churlish, martinet, veritable, polyglot, dissemble, histrionics, prevarication, verbiage and 166 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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trope, surreptitious, tenet, insular, munificent, exegesis, limpid, acerbic, litany, cupidity, restive, protract and 260 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
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high frequent
industrious, feckless, debunk, quintessence, loquacious, obsequious, laconic, plethora, lugubrious, serendipity, facetious, turgid and 261 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Units Of Language
Word:
-a unit of language consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.sulk, promenade, skulk, idle, subsequently, moody, paroxysm, felony, anent, generic, hallucinogen, synaesthesia and 215 more...
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Opethead's list
All Words
deplore, immense, ominouse, dilapidated, dunghill, admonitary, procuring, legilimens, mediocre, implicitly, beseechingly, imperiously and 170 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2263 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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My Personnal Words List on WordNik
Eloquence, dismay, abolish, Procrastination, hallowed, Audacity, provision, flue gas, perceive, aprodith, cult, mischief and 136 more...
Tweets
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Kristianto2010 Angie could not see through the fogged-up windows in her car. Inadvertently tanpa diketahuinya, dengan kurang hati-hati, she pulled out in front of a truck. The accident caused such damage to her brain that she could no longer speak or take care of herself. ODB July 26, 2011. Jul 25, 2011