unwarily

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Evangelist Billy Graham was unwarily inspecting his flock of three sheep near his North Carolina mountain home.

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McClellan unwarily agreed; the committee unanimously approved his amended motion�and spent the weekend regretting it.

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No Hercules in any sense, William Dudley Pelley might well have felt last week that he had unwarily donned the shirt of Nessus.

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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.

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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