Crossword clues for unexpectedness
unexpectedness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unexpected \Un`ex*pect"ed\, a. Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being unexpected.
WordNet
n. extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected; "the unexpectedness of the warm welcome" [syn: surprisingness] [ant: expectedness]
Usage examples of "unexpectedness".
But, on the first reverses of hope in the progress of French liberty, the sanguine eagerness for good overleaped the solution of these questions, and for a time extinguished itself in the unexpectedness of their result.
His long, hollow cheeks, his outflinging arms flapping wildly, the unexpectedness of such an isolated action from out of the crowd caught them unaware.
The utter unexpectedness, improbability, and inconceivableness of such an event robbed this vague declaration of all its effect.
The unexpectedness of his coming was the only thing, you understand, that saved him from being at once despatched with krises and flung into the river.
They were paralyzed by the unexpectedness of being attacked in their own homes, and in that first terror, they believed him.
Her baby oaths were resworn, her childish wickedness depicted in colours which glowed, the biographies of the rough old country rakes who had trained her were related, in free translation, so to speak, over many a dish of chocolate and tea, and, these points dwelt on, what more dramatic than to turn upon the singular fortune of her marriage, the wealth, rank, and reputation of the man who had so worshipped her, and the unexpectedness of her grace and decorum the while she bore his name and shared his home with him.
Because it is a horrible thing to have to say to say to day but one dilalah, Lupita Lorette, shortly after in a fit of the unexpectednesses drank carbolic with all her dear placid life before her and paled off while the other soiled dove that's her sister-in-love, Luperca Latouche, finding one day while dodging chores that she stripped teasily for binocular man and that her jambs were jimpjoyed to see each other, the nautchy girly soon found her fruitful hat too small for her and rapidly taking time,look,she rapidly took to necking, partying and selling her spare favours in the haymow or in lumber closets or in the greenawn ad huck (there are certain intimacies in all ladies' lavastories we just lease to imagination) or in the sweet churchyard .