Synonyms:
unawares
Meaning: without forethought or plan; inadvertently; "came upon the diamond unawares"
Usage examples
Do not be caught unawares.
Caught unawares by a base impulse
Then we'll swoop down upon them unawares."
Woodhull was taken as much unawares as he.
His stepping on it unawares had caused his stumble.
The only thing we can do is this--we must catch Myerst unawares.
Peeping through the wild rice, he pointed with unsteady finger toward the boy playing all unawares.
The cry goes round New York, 'Comrades Asher, Waterman, Philpotts, and others have been taken unawares.
But she slipped away from him, unawares, and ran off towards home; and as the prince followed her, she jumped up into the pigeon-house and shut the door.
I had a lovely harangue all pat in my head, in much the same strain, on the infinite possibilities of entertaining angels unawares, in cabs, on the Underground, in the aerated bread shops; but Elsie's widening eyes of horror pulled me up short like a hansom in Piccadilly when the inexorable upturned hand of the policeman checks it.