Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unsuspicious manner; unsuspectingly; without suspicion.
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- adverb In an
unsuspicious way.
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Examples
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Then again, being attacking by a blonde, blue-eyed native we could have unsuspiciously grown up along side, seems just as chilling.
Eirik Bergesen: Norway is Passing the Test of Terror Eirik Bergesen 2011
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Then again, being attacking by a blonde, blue-eyed native we could have unsuspiciously grown up along side, seems just as chilling.
Eirik Bergesen: Norway is Passing the Test of Terror Eirik Bergesen 2011
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Then again, being attacking by a blonde, blue-eyed native we could have unsuspiciously grown up along side, seems just as chilling.
Eirik Bergesen: Norway is Passing the Test of Terror Eirik Bergesen 2011
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The reply came hesitantly and in exactly the manner Tiff had expected: dispassionately and unsuspiciously.
Parlor Games Carol Reid 2010
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'Who was that?' asked my mother unsuspiciously, watching through the window as the fleeting back view of cropped light brown hair, loose jacket, rolled up jeans and too-big trainers made a fast sloppy shuffle out of sight.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010
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I have to listen to it to be inspired to write about the French monastery.:: whistles unsuspiciously::
raaaawr!!!!! tragic_elegance 2007
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It has the advantage of avoiding being unsuspiciously linked to cesspools and sinkholes.
Keep cool. Ann Althouse 2008
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During the repast he levelled one or two jokes against Pitt Crawley: he drank as much wine as upon the previous day; and going quite unsuspiciously to the drawing-room, began to entertain the ladies there with some choice Oxford stories.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Mr. Wagg, the celebrated wit, and a led captain and trencher-man of my Lord Steyne, was caused by the ladies to charge her; and the worthy fellow, leering at his patronesses and giving them a wink, as much as to say, “Now look out for sport,” one evening began an assault upon Becky, who was unsuspiciously eating her dinner.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Everything seemed to go on as usual in the quiet, opulent house; the good-natured mistress pursuing, quite unsuspiciously, her bustling idleness, and daily easy avocations; the daughter absorbed still in one selfish, tender thought, and quite regardless of all the world besides, when that final crash came, under which the worthy family fell.
Vanity Fair 2006
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