unwary
adjective
not wary; not cautious or watchful, as against danger or misfortune.
unwarily
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a word derived from
unwary.
Example Sentences
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One leak was Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson, member of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, who unwarily blurted it out on a television program in an argument for tighter security regulations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Persistent Mr. Shinwell unwarily agreed that he welcomed "anything that would do good for the common cause."
From Time Magazine Archive
On the morning of May 10, 1940, the scrubbed, immaculate city of Bandung, on a Java plateau, seemed unwarily peaceful.
From Time Magazine Archive
William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, last week gave decisive publication to his wrath against certain English hymns which Roman Catholics have unwarily allowed into their funeral services.
From Time Magazine Archive
When something delicious-smelling ran unwarily past him, he found he had pounced on it and pinned it down without thought.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
