unwarily


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un·war·y

 (ŭn-wâr′ē)
adj. un·war·i·er, un·war·i·est
Not alert to danger, problems, or deception.

un·war′i·ly adv.
un·war′i·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.unwarily - without heed or cautionunwarily - without heed or caution    
warily - in a wary manner; "the sailor watched the sky warily"
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Translations
بِدون حَيْطَه أو حَذَر
ukvapeně
elõvigyázatlanul
ógætilega
neopatrne
dikkatsizce

unwarily

[ʌnˈwɛərɪlɪ] ADVimprudentemente, incautamente
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unwarily

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unwary

(anˈweəri) adjective
not cautious. If you are unwary he will cheat you.
unˈwarily adverb
unˈwariness noun
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And this last form of jealousy tortured her most of all, especially as he had unwarily told her, in a moment of frankness, that his mother knew him so little that she had had the audacity to try and persuade him to marry the young Princess Sorokina.
She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener's lamentations upon blights, in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte,--and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.
The tip of the sock was soaked with blood;" he must have unwarily stepped into that pool.
Raskolnikov had unwarily fixed a very long and direct look on him, so that he felt positively affronted.
The multitude, who had raised a clamorous shout of reprobation, paused and gazed in silence on the formidable and experienced body to which they had unwarily bade defiance, and shrunk back from their front.
If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song.
Their eyes were just of the same colour, but a striking test of the difference in their operation was seen in the demeanour of Trip, the black-and-tan terrier, whenever that much- suspected dog unwarily exposed himself to the freezing arctic ray of Mrs.
No sooner had Metak so unwarily opened the door to this hornets' nest than he immediately withdrew and, turning, fled again in a new direction.
They went out presently to go up to the top of the hill, where I used to go; but they being strong, and a good company, nor alone, as I was, used none of my cautions to go up by the ladder, and pulling it up after them, to go up a second stage to the top, but were going round through the grove unwarily, when they were surprised with seeing a light as of fire, a very little way from them, and hearing the voices of men, not of one or two, but of a great number.
Before him is a dead sea that stretches in azure calm before the eye; but he who unwarily ventures within its embrace finds himself struggling with a monster that would drag him down to perdition.
Narrated in a non-linear format, the film begins with a depressed but conscientious Aisha confessing to her father that her life holds no meaning for her after the breakdown of her marriage to Dev, who she unwarily married seven years ago.