The error occurred, not from malice, but merely as an inadvertence. From LearnThat.org.
He did inform Mr. Fish, at any rate, on the 30th of July, and alleged "inadvertence" as the reason for his omission to do it before. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
"inadvertence" requirement, such a conclusion is inconsistent with. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Surely I must have been guilty of an inadvertence. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
NEARY: On one hand, it could be simple inadvertence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2004] Reference
But many a true word is said in the Press by inadvertence. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919] Reference
Once by inadvertence twice by design he challenges his destiny. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
"Only, inadvertence is sometimes as mischievous in its results.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference
Writing "Hen." for Henry was not error; it was not even an inadvertence. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
But sometimes, either through inadvertence or just by a mistake they read something. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2007] Reference
Knowing that he had perpetrated that act from inadvertence, he informed the Brahmana of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Her wounded vanity often beheld an insult in what was probably no more than an inadvertence. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829] Reference
I hereby thank them one and all, with apologies to others not mentioned through inadvertence. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
We seem to have gotten ourselves involved, almost by inadvertence, in a civil war in Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Charles G. Cogan: The Political Class is Falling Off the War in Afghanistan] Reference
All her consolation is, that her unhappy situation is not owing to her own inadvertence of folly. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Should any such reference be omitted, the neglect must be attributed to inadvertence, not to design. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
But I will not press too hard on the honourable gentleman, or lay an undue weight on an inadvertence. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
Some inadvertence on our part, some chance on theirs, an earthquake, any of these things might discover us. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Or, if through inadvertence he did call back right away, it was to regret that Goldman would have no comment. From Wordnik.com. [Goldman Shrinks an Adage; Long-Term Greedy Can't Wait] Reference
As he approached the girl, leaning out of the open window of the tonneau, dropped her glove as by inadvertence. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
By some inadvertence two copies of the agreement were sealed, one of which was returned to the mayor to be cancelled. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
A single episode or phrase may suffer change from a copyist's hand, from inadvertence or from theological predilection. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
In the case under consideration, this question does not arise, as it is conceded that the act was simply an inadvertence. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
No more beautiful and positive trial could happen, and might not again by accident or inadvertence happen again in a lifetime. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
An interesting point: clearly a conscious decision, not an inadvertence, that the president chose to do what he did this week. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2001] Reference
With "Stumbled" I seek to capture something about the inadvertence of this painful and inevitable warping of the human project. From Wordnik.com. [A Religious Dimension to Environmentalism? Nothing Ridiculous About It] Reference
Non-payment of taxes, when so long persisted in that it cannot have arisen from inadvertence, should disqualify while it lasts. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Government] Reference
Even Claude's silences or evasive replies to questions about his friend's past life seemed casual inadvertence or preoccupation. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
What do you think -- are the particles in a ciborium, left by inadvertence, outside the corporal during consecration consecrated?. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
A cloth-worker in Yorkshire, by carelessness or inadvertence, raises the nap of a given fabric a shade above the regulation height. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
Gilian was abashed at his own inadvertence, but he hastened to explain that he was on the shore watching the vessel when she struck. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
But more importantly, Gandhi in inadvertence echoed Francis Fukuyama's embarrassingly wrong predictive adventure of "End of History.". From Wordnik.com. [Pinaki Bhattacharya: Elections as Classrooms] Reference
The disaster occurs when she becomes, by preposterous inadvertence, a nationally famous financial sage who counsels credit-card restraint. From Wordnik.com. ['Gomorrah': A Sinfully Fine Crime Epic] Reference
All my consolation is, as I have frequently said, that I have not, by my own inadvertence or folly, brought myself into this sad situation. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
It was probably by an inadvertence that he hung his umbrella upon the Speaker's mace, but it was certainly counted as an act of intentional discourtesy against him. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Perhaps some English pilgrim or pilgrims, on the way to Rome, left this book as a gift, or through inadvertence, at the hospice where hospitality had been received. From Wordnik.com. [Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days] Reference
His recommendation had not been the result of carelessness or inadvertence, and, although well-meaning friends sought to excuse it as such, he resented the insinuation. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
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