unwarily

English

Etymology

unwary +‎ -ly

Adverb

unwarily (comparative more unwarily, superlative most unwarily)

1. In an unwary manner.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti,^[1]

     One day as I unwarily did gaze

     On those fayre eyes, my loves immortall light;

     The whiles my stonisht hart stood in amaze,

     Through sweet illusion of her lookes delight;

   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 7,^[2]

     For in a night the best part of my power,

     As I upon advantage did remove,

     Were in the Washes all unwarily

     Devoured by the unexpected flood.

   • 1681, John Dryden, “Absalom and Achitophel” lines 309-312,^[3]

     Th’ Ambitious Youth, too Covetous of Fame,

     Too full of Angels Metal in his Frame,

     Unwarily was led from Vertues ways,

     Made Drunk with Honour, and debauch’d with Praise.

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 42,^[4]

     […] the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, […] in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte […]