inadvertently
pronunciation
How to pronounce inadvertently in British English:
UK [ˌɪnədˈvɜ:təntli]
How to pronounce inadvertently in American English:
US [ˌɪnədˈvɜrtəntli]
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- Adverb:
- without knowledge or intention
Word Origin
- inadvertently (adv.)
- 1670s, literally "inattentively," hence "unintentionally;" see inadvertent + -ly (2).
Example
- 1. It is not clear whether the health ministry officials revealed this information inadvertently .
- 2. But it seems that the tourists attracted by the coral 's beauty and animal diversity may be inadvertently destroying the reefs .
- 3. Inadvertently included in this was an unredacted version of an earlier filing by overstock containing excerpts of e-mails from goldman and merrill employees .
- 4. Sometimes in an effort to show you understand what is being said you may make a connection and inadvertently change the topic or divert attention to yourself .
- 5. Federal securities regulators , in a sensitive breach , inadvertently revealed the identity of a whistleblower during a probe of a firm that ran a stock trading platform .