unwarily
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Two Blue destroyers and a minelayer unwarily came within range of the land batteries, and one of them was sunk.
From Time Magazine Archive
No Hercules in any sense, William Dudley Pelley might well have felt last week that he had unwarily donned the shirt of Nessus.
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
Persistent Mr. Shinwell unwarily agreed that he welcomed "anything that would do good for the common cause."
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
