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• s  happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
  with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table

• There is growing disquiet that the shelling on civilian targets is not inadvertent but deliberate.
• Charles inadvertent disclosure led to the arrest of the kingpin of the drug mafia.
• Hundreds of holiday makers had to deal with inadvertent infection due to the outbreak of communicable disease in the beach-side town.

• accidental

News & Articles

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• Appeals court dismisses organic farmers’ lawsuit vs Monsanto, but says firm has promised it won’t sue over inadvertent ...
  A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Monsanto by organic farmers and seed companies— but stressed that Monsanto has in turn given binding promises that it will not sue farmers whose crops have been inadvertently contaminated with its product.
  June 12, 2013 - Food Navigator USA
• Veracode Introduces Mobile Application Reputation Service
  BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veracode, Inc., is announcing the introduction of Mobile Application Reputation Service (MARS) which will help prevent inadvertent data leakage due to the use of risky mobile applications.
  June 10, 2013 - Business Wire

Quotes

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• Stu Jackson in ESPN
  It's not cut-and-dried, because certainly there have been players hit in the head with elbows, and we haven't suspended those players because it was inadvertent or part of a basketball play that in some cases was unavoidable,Jackson said.
• Richard Blumenthal in BusinessWeek
  The company must provide a complete and comprehensive explanation of how this unauthorized data collection happened, why the information was kept if collection was inadvertent and what action will prevent a recurrence,he said.
• Kenyon Martin in SI.com
  What happened with Melvin in Wednesday's game was inadvertent. I apologized to him on the court and again after the game. He told me he knew it was an accident,Martin said in the statement.