Wiktionary
adv. Without awareness, without intent.
WordNet
adv. without knowledge or intention; "he unwittingly deleted the references" [syn: unwittingly, inadvertently] [ant: mindfully, wittingly, wittingly]
Usage examples of "unknowingly".
But on the night that I first spoke to you, in the courtyards of Gae at the first quarter moon of autumn, they lay so close that a sleeper, a dreamer, could be drawn across unknowingly, as you were.
Jeremy who had, Karp inside and Ernst out, Joey, the Winklemans, all moved unknowingly through the same ogre-like zone of silence, which made a necessary sacrifice of the Nickys and Sallys, leaving the less beautiful behind to pick at the bones of their discontent.
Eldor regarded him unknowingly, the glazed eyes half-hidden under lashless lids.
She slipped from the ballroom with the Duc de Loury and returned, an hour or so later, with his medal unknowingly caught in the ribbons of her bodice.
Theodore Lyte had unknowingly waded into battle with Alexis Redfield, and the woman had won, hands down.
Let the true nature of the Mater Mundi become widely known, and all espers would become targets, feared and hated, hunted down and destroyed because of the monster they unknowingly held within them.
Because it takes from six weeks to several months to develop a sensitivity to scabies the first time you get them, you can be spreading them unknowingly for quite a while.
All unknowingly he has darted into the broad entrance of a cave, an arching roof of rock above him, a mountain spring bursting forth from one side, a broad pool with sedgy grass growing near the entrance for sunlight, catching only moonlight and firelight now.
But his worst adventure--he seemed shy in telling it--was when he was caught without snow-shoes in an early fall blizzard, and crossed unknowingly a bottomless half-frozen sphagnum swamp which heaved under his tread and made him vomit up his soul.
If, unknowingly, I meditated while sitting in a patch of poison ivy, I would regret it.
Because in recompiling, you have unknowingly spawned another Trojan horse.
The young seminarian had shared his homosexual fears with him, unknowingly setting himself up for the murder of that poor, defenseless paperboy.
When young men warned to be snickering boys again and told each other the coarsest, filthiest stories they could think of, it was of flathead males and women, and what would happen to a man who shared Pleasures with such a woman afterward, even unknowingly -- especially unknowingly.
Beings who used gold for horseshoes might well be able to contribute a little more of it, even if unknowingly, to the retirement fund of a weary but deserving adventurer.
She talked about the vulnerability of a figure unknowingly watched the difference between a portrait and an unposed study.