unwarily

Example Sentences

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The ceiling leaks plaster, the walls are held upright by a huge wall divider, and one can step unwarily on a rug, as Eugene does, and sink a foot or so through the rotting floorboards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two Blue destroyers and a minelayer unwarily came within range of the land batteries, and one of them was sunk.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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