Both Uses of
inadvertent
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Mr Pluck, after feigning to be in a condition of great embarrassment for some minutes, resumed the conversation by entreating Mrs Nickleby to take no heed of what he had inadvertently said—to consider him imprudent, rash, injudicious.†
Chpt 27 *
- 'Let me see him do it again,' said he who had been kicked into the corner, rising as he spoke, apparently more from the fear of John Browdie's inadvertently treading upon him, than from any desire to place himself on equal terms with his late adversary.†
Chpt 43
Definition:
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(inadvertent) done accidentally or without intention