Sample sentences for UNWITTING

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Definition

not intentional (without knowledge)

unwittingly = unintentionally (without knowing it)

unwitting = unintentional (without knowing it)

Eventually she would have to tell David what she had unwittingly done.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

unwittingly = accidentally

The pilot who landed so suddenly in the lake was a fur buyer mapping Cree trapping camps for future buying runs, drawn by Brian when he unwittingly turned on the emergency transmitter and left it going.
Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet

unwittingly = accidentally

But she had not dared to sleep, for fear she would kick off the blanket and give herself away—give the Tucks away—unwittingly.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

unwittingly = unintentionally (without knowing it)

The kid hits the ground, out cold, unwittingly taking the bullet meant for Connor.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

unwittingly = unintentionally

The Chilean farmers who unwittingly risked their lives were ignorant peasants; the government of Chile had an economic crisis to worry about; and the American authorities had no jurisdiction.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park

unwittingly = unintentionally (without knowing it)

Of this offence Buck was unwittingly guilty, and the first knowledge he had of his indiscretion was when Sol-leks whirled upon him and slashed his shoulder to the bone for three inches up and down.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

unwittingly = unintentionally (without knowing it)

I was not at all remorseful for having unwittingly set those other branches of the Pocket family to the poor arts they practised; because such littlenesses were their natural bent, and would have been evoked by anybody else, if I had left them slumbering.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

unwittingly = unintentionally (without knowing it)

But no hint to that effect escaping him and his countenance becoming more overcast, I suddenly remembered that I might have been all wrong, and was perhaps playing the fool unwittingly; and I began gently to withdraw myself from his arms — but he eagerly snatched me closer.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

unwittingly = without knowing it

Risa has gotten to know an overweight girl prone to tears, a girl wound up from a week of nicotine withdrawal, and a girl who was a ward of the state, just like her—and also just like Risa, an unwitting victim of budget cuts.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

unwitting = unintentional (without knowledge)

4) Away with me, a worthless wretch who slew Unwitting thee, my son, thy mother too.
Sophocles -- Antigone
"Like what?" said Carrie, unwitting of what was coming.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
And like any unwitting animal that was well and truly caught, Josie could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
Then he talked harshly to the unwitting culprit, and in his voice there was nothing but godlike wrath.
Jack London -- White Fang
He closed his eyes and grasped the elbows of the chair, touching unwittingly the lady's arm.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
Mrs. Jarvis had turned out to be an unwitting ally.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory.
Kate Chopin -- The Story of an Hour
His mother died in the attempt to save him — and unwittingly provided him with a protection I admit I had not foreseen.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Yet all the same, I must have unwittingly inflicted great pain upon you.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

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