Overlook
overlook (verb) - do not realise or notice how important something is
drawn to your magnetism and happy to overlook your faults
overlook an error
overlook such a small error
companies must not overlook the market as a source of funds
man's capacity to overlook what he does not want to see is almost unlimited
overlook the needs of others
all too easy to overlook
that's a point we mustn't overlook in all this
wife manages to overlook husband's dalliance
overlook the need to
unintentionally overlook
inadvertently overlook
overlook an obvious point
overlook a fundamental principle
overlook the pains which may attend new pleasures
prepared to overlook the hideous blowing of bugles beneath the windows of my house
agreed to overlook the qualification requirement
tended to overlook how far we had already come
willing to overlook past shortcomings
cannot overlook the position of the poorest
completely overlook
entirely overlook
be careful not to overlook any of these important things
cannot overlook
cannot afford to overlook
be inclined to overlook
be willing to overlook
able to overlook
it would be unwise to overlook
should not be overlooked
be easy to overlook
conveniently overlook
seem to overlook
forced to overlook
caused us to overlook
it is important not to overlook
Example sentences:
* Editor Malcolm Barker agreed to overlook the qualification requirement and offered Clayton the job.
* One cannot overlook, or be indifferent to, the needs of others.
* She tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings.
* The committee is willing to overlook past shortcomings on the understanding that improvement is shown.
* People will be drawn to your magnetism and surprisingly happy to overlook your faults.
* Just as companies must not overlook the market as a source of funds, so they should avoid getting locked into the idea that they must invest their own cash surpluses.
* Don't worry if you are already a subscriber, you will be able to overlook your next year's renewal!
* There are facts about the lives of men and women and the systematic ways in which their lives differ, which it would be unwise to overlook.
* Be careful not to overlook any of these. There are exactly six problems you must look for.
* It may be that fascination with the problems of why palatable insects are brightly coloured has caused us to overlook Darwin's problems of why unpalatable insects are brightly coloured in the first place.
* Even allowing that man's capacity to overlook what he does not want to see is almost unlimited, the folk of this age can hardly have failed to observe that new law was being made all the time.
* In pressing ahead we cannot overlook the position of the poorest.
* But wouldn't they just in practice overlook such a small error?
Those who have been able to overlook its skimpy fur, which gives it a gangling, half-naked appearance, insist that in personality it is a sheer delight, retaining an almost kittenish playfulness even when adult.
* Any other author and I might overlook the fact but now he has augmented his idleness with bad taste.
* The tall, those engrossers of manhood, those hyperbolic exemplifiers of the species, the monsters who overlook us.
* When workers' minds are focused on children's emotional well-being it is all too easy to overlook the basics of good child care.
* That's a point we mustn't overlook in all this.
* It's reasonable to hope a wife could manage to overlook a casual, brief dalliance.
* You will find it difficult to overlook the matter.
To overlook this valuable opportunity is to fail to take full advantage of out unrivalled access to useful resources.
* It may be easy to overlook such common objectives as may be present.
* Nor should church programmes overlook the need to teach children and adolescents a proper and responsible use of the media.
* In the early days of the emergency I was prepared to overlook the nuisance caused by the hideous and untutored blowing of bugles beneath the windows of my house.
* We should not overlook the possibility of attracting professional musicians into church music.
* There's no doubt that while the East is fascinating in many ways, most people who write of it overlook its two outstanding features, sand and syphilis, especially the latter, which is very prevalent. [Please note: Very old sentence]
* Moreover, to claim that in allowing the patient to die, the doctor acted lawfully, because he omitted to do anything, rather than committed any act, is to overlook the obvious point that, depending on the particular circumstances, it may be the doctor's duty to act, so that his failure to act by allowing death constituted a breach of duty.
* We emphasised religion in connection with education and the family, but we should not overlook the importance of the secularisation of society.
* In all these cases, trial courts had been moved by personal plight to overlook the fundamental principle that trials must be open in every respect.
* Writing which sets out to seduce, to exhort and pressurize the reader to indulge in immorality, is to be distinguished from that which presents a balanced picture, and does not overlook the pains which may attend new pleasures.
