Inadvertently

Inadvertently (adjective): not focusing the mind on a matter

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inadvertent

This word was encountered in the article ” A Literary Visitor Strolls In From the Airport” by Charles McGrath which states ” Will Self’s new novel,”The Book of Dave”(Bloomsbury USA) ,is about a London cabdriver who inadvertently founds a religion when a ranting diatribe he buries in a garden of his ex-wife is dug up five centuries later, in a now apocalyptic word, and becomes a sacred tex”. This word was on the first page of the article in the first paragraph, first sentence.

This word was a big word and what it means is that somebody did it with no intention of doing it. To better describe the the word it means when its accidentally and with it being a accident most people don’t really pay attention it because it was not like they did it on purpose. For example when somebody spills coffee on somebody or falls on top of somebody on the train when the train is going fast, most of those situations aren’t on purpose. So what it means to not focus the mind on a matter is that people should say sorry but shouldn’t really worry about the situation too much.

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