unheeded
adjective
un·heed·ed
ˌən-ˈhē-dəd 
: not attended or listened to : not heeded
unheeded warnings
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Tolstoy died, at eighty-two, in a railway station on November 20, 1910, his words unheeded.
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Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Bullitt succeeded in stiffening Reynaud’s resolve to save the city, but his simultaneous pleas to Roosevelt went largely unheeded.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
His appeals, and those of subsequent Mexican leaders, went largely unheeded.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
For years, civil liberties groups have been calling on the federal government to protect the private information of individuals, but those calls have gone mostly unheeded.
—Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2021
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Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Bullitt succeeded in stiffening Reynaud’s resolve to save the city, but his simultaneous pleas to Roosevelt went largely unheeded.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
His appeals, and those of subsequent Mexican leaders, went largely unheeded.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
For years, civil liberties groups have been calling on the federal government to protect the private information of individuals, but those calls have gone mostly unheeded.
—Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2021
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“Unheeded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unheeded. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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