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Example sentences for "unwarily"

Lexicographically close words:
unvitiated; unvoiced; unwalled; unwanted; unwares; unwarlike; unwarned; unwarped; unwarrantable; unwarrantably
  1. In the fourth book, he inveighs most bitterly against Nestorius, whom he had for some time unwarily favored.

  2. Some great and good men have been imposed upon by lies, and have given credit to false histories, but without being privy to the forgery; and nothing erroneous, dangerous, or prejudicial was contained in what they unwarily admitted.

  3. I did not know he was married when I first unwarily accepted of his addresses, and it was too late to retreat before I found it out; otherwise the universe should not have tempted me to have listened to him.

  4. Unhappy Mr Arnold, into what a gulph didst thou unwarily plunge thyself!

  5. Upon enquiring the cause of his complaining, as he did not seem to carry any load, the man related, that he had been unwarily devoted to the spirits by an execration, and that they now employed him constantly as a vehicle of burthen.

  6. I dare not, I say, so much as hint at one of these Absurdities, lest I should be unwarily tempted to crack a Jest on it.

  7. A building, likewise, of more expense and magnificence than his slender fortune could afford, being unwarily undertaken by him, much exposed him to public reproach, as if he had acquired great riches by corruption.

  8. Southampton, it is said, merely from his affection to the king, had unwarily embraced the offer; and it was not till he communicated the matter to the chancellor, that he was made sensible of its pernicious tendency.

  9. Two circumstances, however, have been unwarily mentioned, which insinuate that the general treatment of the Christians, who had been apprehended by the officers of justice, was less intolerable than it is usually imagined to have been.

  10. Ammianus, who unwarily deviates into gross flattery, must have forgotten the length of the way, and the short duration of the reign of Julian.

  11. The tip of the sock was soaked with blood;" he must have unwarily stepped into that pool.

  12. Raskolnikov had unwarily fixed a very long and direct look on him, so that he felt positively affronted.

  13. The levying of first-fruits was also a new device begun in this reign, by which his holiness thrust his fingers very frequently into the purses of the faithful; and the king seems to have unwarily given way to it.

  14. The countryfolk whisper that these birds are the souls of those who have been drowned at the ford--those who have dared to pass unwarily when the tide was pouring in with the force of the ocean behind it.

  15. During her master's absence at church she unwarily opened one of the books in his study, "whereupon a host of spirits sprung up all round her.

  16. One Hunter, a young man of nineteen, an apprentice, having been seduced by a priest into a dispute, had unwarily denied the real presence.

  17. Mr. Bertram was not quite so ignorant of English grammar as his worshipful predecessor: but Augustus Pease himself could not have used more indiscriminately the weapon unwarily put into his hand.

  18. He was highly sensible of it, and could never afterwards reflect on the snare that he had so unwarily been drawn into, and had so narrowly escaped, without a mixture of horror, shame, and gratitude to his deliverer.

  19. Peechy Prauw sank quietly back, like a man who had unwarily stolen upon the lair of a sleeping lion.

  20. Thus may his answers unwarily betray himself to ruin.

  21. Therefore it is, that with extreme apprehension I view the smallest seeds of discontent, which are unwarily scattered abroad.

  22. I will say nothing of these circumstances, for I know they will avail me little; let me only supplicate from you forgiveness, and the picture, which I so unwarily returned.

  23. Mr. Bertram was not quite so ignorant of English grammar as his worshipful predecessor; but Augustus Pease himself could not have used more indiscriminately the weapon unwarily put into his hand.

  24. And shipmen see this and beware that they be not overset unwarily with tempest and with storms.

  25. And if shipmen come unwarily thereby, unneth they scape without peril.

  26. At last he would find a hen seated unwarily on her nest, slide up behind her, deftly and silently grab a stone, and run off triumphantly with it to his mate who was busily arranging her own home.

  27. In some of these low-lying situations penguins had unwarily made their nests, and there was one particular little colony near our hut which was threatened with total extinction from the accumulation of thaw water.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unwarily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anyhow; carelessly; clumsily; heedlessly; offhand; recklessly