unwary
adjective
not wary; not cautious or watchful, as against danger or misfortune.
unwariness
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a word derived from
unwary.
Example Sentences
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The only criticism it seems possible to suggest on Scheer's tactics is the unwariness of his pursuit, which might so easily have led to the total destruction of the German fleet.
From A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens
Plato is a perfect master of logic and rhetoric; and whenever he errs in either, as I have proved to you he does occasionally, he errs through perverseness, not through unwariness.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
His sudden and astounding change from total unwariness to a fighting youth with every sense on the alert was something for which they were unprepared.
From Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win by Burt L. Standish
He was wary, untiring, vigilant, bold, and no federal trooper ever went on picket without the feeling that this man might be close at hand watching to take advantage of any moment of unwariness.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd
The Barren Ground Caribou comes close to holding the palm for unwariness among the larger land mammals of North America.
From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper
