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  • adjective Not noticing.

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un- +‎ noticing

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Examples

  • It must be lovely, I often think, to be as insulated and as unnoticing as my husband.

    More About Us « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • And I do not believe that man noticed you were a girl—these men are so unnoticing!

    Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

  • And quite honestly, when you have a person who can talk to you while you watch their O2 stats drops on the monitor behind them, thier hands and arms turn purple before they pass out, all unnoticing anything unusual, you ask the question, 'um, what IS normal for this patient and how do to attain and remain stablized in it in order to discharge them?'

    Screw Bronze: Zombie Edition plus me scared. Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • And I do not believe that man noticed you were a girl—these men are so unnoticing!

    Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

  • She was thus employed, unnoticing the passage of time, when Mrs. Arlbery tapped at her door, and asked if she wished to dine in her own room.

    Camilla 2008

  • Suddenly her eye encountered that of her father; and his glance, vague and unnoticing as it was, terrified her.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • Now I wonder why so many readers passed it unnoticing.

    Blood, Tin, Straw by Sharon Olds ricklibrarian 2006

  • Now I wonder why so many readers passed it unnoticing.

    Archive 2006-10-01 ricklibrarian 2006

  • They were rapt in contemplation of each other and clearly unnoticing anything else.

    Beast Master's Circus Norton, Andre 2004

  • He was so still, so unnoticing, and the darkness of the nape of his neck was so like invisibility.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

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