| The court considered a belief may be honestly held whether it stems from intoxication, stupidity, forgetfulness or inattention. |
| Since then, however, North Korea has benefited from American neglect and inattention. |
| Superficiality of public argument and inattention to sustained discussion were thought to impoverish decision-making about public affairs. |
| Whence this peculiar congeries of views, advanced with supreme self-confidence and heedless inattention to fact? |
| He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. |
| Even laziness, inattention and simple absorption in the mundane can gradually erode the capacities in which this property resides. |
