Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not under suspicion.
- adjective Not known to exist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not suspected.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not
suspected - adjective that has not raised
suspicion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not suspected or believed likely
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Examples
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It's funny what a small world it is sometimes and the fact that you might meet people in unsuspected places.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004
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Nonetheless, nonexperimental research cannot exclude the potential effects of self-selection, that is, the possibility that some unsuspected factor perhaps even something genetic induces both religiosity and neighborliness, producing a spurious correlation, so that simply forcing people to attend church more often would not make them more neighborly.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Other stories uncover the deep-holes in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boys disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad.
Too Much Happiness: Summary and book reviews of Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro. 2009
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I used to ride the subways there just to observe the pick pockets work on the unsuspected visiting from South Bend.
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The mapping of Deep Time will likely never be complete, or even halfway so, and, hence, I may freely populate it with any number of heretofore unsuspected microcontinents and atolls.
"If it takes my whole life, I won't break, I won't bend." greygirlbeast 2009
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Her mother murdered, her father a laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild.
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I used to ride the subways there just to observe the pick pockets work on the unsuspected visiting from South Bend.
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I used to ride the subways there just to observe the pick pockets work on the unsuspected visiting from South Bend.
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While we get glimpses of Lou's childhood, they mostly have to do with establishing that he's been a bad seed -- if an unsuspected one -- all of his life.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Killer Inside Me Marshall Fine 2010
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I used to ride the subways there just to observe the pick pockets work on the unsuspected visiting from South Bend.
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