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Example sentences for "unintentional"

Lexicographically close words:
unintelligently; unintelligibility; unintelligible; unintelligibly; unintended; unintentionally; uninterested; uninteresting; unintermitted; unintermittent
  1. Not content with becoming a convert to the Romish church, the young Baronet determined upon expiating his unintentional parricide, by taking the cowl, and entering into its strictest order of monachism.

  2. There is no reason for doubting these new tales,[79] notwithstanding the fact that in some of the other statements made by Oldecop, especially those in which he had no personal concern, some unintentional errors occur.

  3. Even true mysticism is constantly open to the danger not only of conscious and intentional exaggeration of its theses, but of unintentional misapprehension.

  4. I don't know about being so very young," said the Duchess, whose ear had perhaps caught some little hint of poor Lady Glencora's almost unintentional mimicry.

  5. These unintentional misdoings are the "sins" one repents of all one's life long: I have others stored away, the bitterest of small things done or undone in haste and repented of at so much leisure afterwards.

  6. To this wild doctrine, one erratic Irishman yields a full assent; and, in one American grammatist, we find a partial and unintentional concurrence with it.

  7. Before this the young ladies of the house had been regaling me with a good many facts, and perhaps a little unintentional fiction, concerning the Geelong branch of Mr. Deedes's colonial career.

  8. Something, something absolutely unintentional and of the slightest quality, in his voice operated to lower her estimate of the announcement on the card, and she flushed a little.

  9. The movement effectually arrested him, unintentional though it seemed.

  10. In order to prevent unintentional violation both parties should notify the armistice as quickly as possible to all, or at any rate to the divisions concerned.

  11. Or, neglecting the unintentional and merely initiative signs as not, properly speaking, signs at all, every kind of intentional sign may be represented diagrammatically as in the illustration opposite.

  12. In these views he was a disciple of Hume, whose influence has surreptitiously percolated all modern thought, and his unintentional allies were the teachers of Natural religion, with Paley as its principal exponent.

  13. Unintentional cruelty often comes from mere thoughtlessness, and the teacher should be very careful not to be cruel in words or actions from want of thought.

  14. The Master speaks much on cruelty as a sin against love, and distinguishes between intentional and unintentional cruelty.

  15. While the news of Katherine's injury soon spread about the college, it was reported merely as one of those unintentional happenings for which no one was actually culpable.

  16. In the darkness she did not see Leila's Cheshire cat grin, born of Jerry's unintentional betrayal.

  17. One of his contributions may be quoted as illustrating how unintentional are the originals of some of Punch's jokes.

  18. In time Charles Keene made us forget the unintentional injustice Leech had done to a noble movement; and as fate willed it, Mr. G.

  19. I was an unintentional observer of the scene which just occurred between you and Mr. Carmichael--one in which, to my thinking, you showed to monstrous poor advantage.

  20. An unintentional outburst, Mollie," he said.

  21. I think it was pretty rough, Mr. Upton, to penalize him for an unintentional foul,” said Morrill.

  22. But if it was obviously an unintentional foul, I shouldn’t have been so strict.

  23. Caricatures intentional or unintentional of New Testament teaching have often represented it as making Christ's work the means of pacifying an unloving God and moving Him to mercy.

  24. I say unintentional because Sir Oliver, blind to the explanations his own book offers, is plainly incapable of wilfully suppressing facts that tell against himself.

  25. As a test of unintentional garbling I asked a professional man, who had read Raymond sympathetically, to give me a short account of what the medium said about the photograph.

  26. During that long period of infancy for law, how many must have been the openings for ignorant and unintentional injustice!

  27. Still Mr. Reyes was of opinion that there were two ways of executing orders: but the main offence was unintentional on Kate's part.

  28. Here will be an unwilling, unintentional martyrdom; and it is hard to think I should take all the merit, and leave my poor little wife the suffering without any compensation!

  29. A particular difficulty of the task more or less foreign to every other medical inquiry is the intentional or unintentional effort of the patient to hide the sources of the trouble and to mislead as to their true character.

  30. Punctilious courtesy, frank apology for unintentional wrong, is with us a point of honour.

  31. I would like to apologize for my unintentional mistake.

  32. But if I go and apologize, and assure her of my unwillingness to cause her a moment's annoyance, surely I might make amends for my unintentional mistake.

  33. Dexie was an unintentional listener to this explanation, and it did not raise Mr. Plaisted in her estimation.

  34. A lady and gentleman were trying in defiance of the wind to haul up a flag on the tall staff erected at the point, to whom I apologised for my unintentional trespass.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unintentional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accidental; automatic; blind; casual; chance; compulsive; conditioned; forced; gut; impulsive; inadvertent; instinctive; involuntary; mechanical; reflex; reflexive; snap; spontaneous; unadvised; uncalculated; unconscious; unconsidered; undesigned; unguarded; unintentional; unpremeditated; unstudied; unthinking; unwilling; unwitting