unwarily

Example Sentences

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On the morning of May 10, 1940, the scrubbed, immaculate city of Bandung, on a Java plateau, seemed unwarily peaceful.

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

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

Those who listened unwarily to that voice could seldom report the words that they heard; and if they did, they wondered, for little power remained in them.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien