expectant
adjective
having expectations; expecting.
unexpectant
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a word derived from
expectant.
Example Sentences
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This time, before Dick Lewis could get a physician, the unexpectant mother was in the third stage of labor, in their bedroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not unexpectant that by early day Our little Band would thrid this mountain way, 210 Before her cottage on the bright hill side She hath advanced with hope to be descried.
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by William Wordsworth
Do not look in men for the qualities you want to find, or for qualities you imagine they ought to have, but look with unexpectant eyes for what you can find.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
Rhodes then fell like an avalanche upon the unexpectant and now thoroughly disorganized divisions of the retreating enemy.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
It could not have landed better, for that worthy returned it as a point-blank shot which took full effect on the unexpectant nose of Ermigit.
From Red Rooney The Last of the Crew by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
