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She unwittingly bought and sold stolen merchandise.unwittingly = without knowledge or intent
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She was an unwitting accomplice in the crime.
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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. (source)unwitting = unintentional (without knowledge)
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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
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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)
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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
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Since the beginning of storytelling, he explained, Death has called on the unwitting.† (source)unwitting = without knowledge or intent
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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 intentstandard 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.
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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)
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I had been the entitled half, the society-approved, legitimate half, the unwitting embodiment of Baba's guilt.† (source)unwitting = without knowledge or intent
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There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. (source)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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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