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unwitting
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  • 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.  (source)
    unwittingly = accidentally
  • 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.  (source)
    unwittingly = unintentionally (without knowing it)
  • But she had not dared to sleep, for fear she would kick off the blanket and give herself away—give the Tucks away—unwittingly.  (source)
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  • Eventually she would have to tell David what she had unwittingly done.  (source)
    unwittingly = accidentally
  • Since the beginning of storytelling, he explained, Death has called on the unwitting.†  (source)
    unwitting = without knowledge or intent
  • So he spake and besought him, in his unwittingness, for truly it was to be his own evil death and fate that he prayed for.†  (source)
    unwittingness = the state of being without knowledge or intent
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwittingness means not and reverses the meaning of wittingness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • 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.  (source)
    unwittingly = unintentionally (without knowing it)
  • I had been the entitled half, the society-approved, legitimate half, the unwitting embodiment of Baba's guilt.†  (source)
    unwitting = without knowledge or intent
  • There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory.  (source)
  • On the last day of February 1941, a dapper little Gestapo man comes to him with the news that the unwitting Dupont has tried to use the forged tickets.†  (source)
  • 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.  (source)
    unwittingly = unintentionally (without knowing it)
  • From Red Caps they moved on to kappas, creepy water-dwellers that looked like scaly monkeys, with webbed hands itching to strangle unwitting waders in their ponds.†  (source)
    unwitting = without knowledge or intent
  • 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.  (source)
    unwittingly = without knowing it
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