View synonyms for accidentally

accidentally

[ ak-si-den-tl-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

by chance or mistake; in a way that is not planned or intended:
If you break your key, whether accidentally or on purpose, there is a $40 charge to replace it.
in a nonessential or subsidiary way; incidentally:
Philosophy is essentially a vocation, and only accidentally a profession.

But, Adnan suggest that Jay butt-dialed Nisha by mistake on his phone and accidentally left a two-minute voicemail.

Along the way, he accidentally embeds a nail in his foot, which is not symbolic at all.

Hathaway says she discovered that everyone hated her accidentally.

“It was as though she had veered, accidentally, into her own life,” writes Shields elsewhere.

On her first episode live from New York, she accidentally said the f-word.

It wasn't far, so we kept on, and presently it developed that we had accidentally come upon old Piegan Smith.

Again, mebbe it would–if the hull thing that happened next was accidentally a-purpose.

They had, perhaps, when they were thus accidentally lifted to power, no very definite intentions of any sort.

On the 22d August, one of the plants having been accidentally injured, the experiment was terminated.

One day he accidentally let slip some words about Melbourne, which he could not well have done unless he had seen the place.

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