What does the word unawares mean?
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Unexpectedly; unwittingly.
Part of speech: adverb
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Usage examples for unawares
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" I've taken you unawares, I see. – The Great Hunger by Johan Bojer
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Why Love, like a angel, springs up in the heart unawares, as Lot entertained another, I don't know. – Sweet Cicely Or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
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Lurking behind a bush you sprang upon him unawares and ran him through before he could so much as lay a hand to his sword, and so.... – The Sea-Hawk by Raphael Sabatini