UNWARILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unwarily mean? 

• UNWARILY (adverb)
  The adverb UNWARILY has 1 sense:

1. without heed or caution

  Familiarity information: UNWARILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNWARILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without heed or caution

Antonym:

warily (in a wary manner)

Pertainym:

unwary (not alert to danger or deception)

 Context examples 

She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener's lamentations upon blights, 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,—and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)