unheeding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unheeding
Adjective
  • To him, though, the bistro is perfect, rich in singular details that people of more heedless taste might have scrubbed away.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
  • His specialty is now the heedless hero whose certainty about his righteousness drives him to extremes.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Kendall took off his shirt, unmindful of the scar slashing down his torso.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The unmindful construction planning, noise and light pollution, and Tesla traffic jams have meanwhile done nothing to endear the diner to those living nearby — the lifeblood of most successful restaurants — and anti-Musk demonstrators are organizing a series of protests at the location.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2025
Adjective
  • This trend is unsettling, but perhaps more alarming is that large numbers of people could become so oblivious to the upside of vice as to decide that it is better pursued alone.
    Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
  • This is not to say that Woody was oblivious to my problems.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s the interest in Britney Spears and pop icons who had been assumed to be vacant, unthinking ingénues.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The point is made: Pinocchio might have a hole where his heart should be, but is the unthinking servile person any less hollow?
    Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Haseebullah also is worried about the Cybertrucks’ surveillance abilities that the public may not be unaware of, and that the fleet might give Tesla access to police data.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Jesse jokes, blithely unaware, before shooting out of bed after locking eyes with the chimp.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Kodiak Driver achieved perfect scores of 100 in inattentive driving, high-risk driving and traffic violations.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a fine line between obtrusive service, with servers buzzing like flies around the table, and inattentive service.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Advertisement Whether out of unconscious sexism, his infatuation with her, or both, Lee was catastrophically wrong in assuming that Betty Jo was an innocent victim in the Washberg affair.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Jokes and dreams are two of the best ways to reveal someone’s unconscious life.
    Big Think, Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • One of the strongest scenes in this episode is Maeve teaching the unknowing captive Sam how to swim.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The book opens with amnesia—the author’s and her mother’s—and from this place of unknowing, Rojas starts to examine her family’s history in Colombia, especially her grandfather Nono’s life as a curandero (shaman).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Unheeding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unheeding. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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