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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unsuspecting
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
victim
▪ One may batter an unconscious, sleeping or unsuspecting victim.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And perhaps it was offered to me all those years ago in unsuspecting naturalness.
▪ Edward Davis, a son of the owner, assured the unsuspecting farmer that everything within was free.
▪ Here an impressive collection of vehicles from the Great Age of Steam awaits unsuspecting engineers from two to ninety-two.
▪ I jab smartly, snapping out into his unsuspecting face and make solid contact against his nose.
▪ Just catch some unsuspecting psychopathic bee, strap it on and watch it go.
▪ Shareware authors, however, release their products on an unsuspecting world with no up-front payment.
▪ The bill for incorporating the bank of the United States did not steal upon an unsuspecting legislature, and pass unobserved.
▪ When males are unleashed on to unsuspecting females, there may be evolutionary mayhem.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsuspecting

1590s, from un- (1) "not" + present participle of suspect (v.).

Wiktionary
unsuspecting

a. Of or pertaining to ''lack of suspicion''.

WordNet
unsuspecting
  1. adj. not suspicious; "deceiving the unsuspecting public" [syn: unsuspicious]

  2. (often followed by `of') not knowing or expecting; not thinking likely; "an unsuspecting victim"; "unsuspecting (or unaware) of the fact that I would one day be their leader"

Usage examples of "unsuspecting".

Prussian autocracy was not and could never be our friend, is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of Government with spies and set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity and counsel, our peace within and without our industries and our commerce.

Ahead of him was a brigade of skirmishers, a misted valley, an unsuspecting enemy and, for the moment, silence.

So we sailed on about ten miles down to the Moriches Inlet, where the Coast Guard were so busy towing boats and pulling tipsy people out of the drink, they could hardly be expected to notice one little boat like ours that had tiptoed up the Inland Waterway full of illegal immigrants and illicit contraband, about to creep in beneath their unsuspecting eyes.

All unsuspecting she gave herself to the embrace of a strange pair of arms, and Vanamee arriving but a score of moments later, stumbled over her prostrate body, inert and unconscious, in the shadow of the overspiring trees.

Orr was a happy and unsuspecting simpleton with a thick mass of wavy polychromatic hair parted down the center.

Young predators just waiting to jump some poor, unsuspecting schlub who opted for a shortcut down the aptly named avenue.

For Wilbur Smot was about to unleash on an unsuspecting world the most dangerous chemical compound ever created, a potion that could rob the human race of its past, and therefore, its future.

Might they even be one of the species of fanatics that had ambushed the unsuspecting Streaker, and even now sought her out like hounds after a fox?

Randal half expected him to attack the unsuspecting Swayn, and the young wizard began readying a shield spell just in case it became necessary to protect the farmer.

Leicester had gone through six months of tradecraft training at the Farm with Eric, tailing unsuspecting tourists through the streets of Williamsburg, Virginia.

Jagan Grantforth had thoroughly bedazzled, and seduced, an unsuspecting, gullible Trilby Elliot of Port Rumor.

However, persons adept in social engineering skills can use this information to masquerade as an authorized employee, contractor, or vendor to deceive unsuspecting personnel into providing more sensitive information that would result in unauthorized access to corporate computer systems.

Together these ensured that he could take clear, unblurred portraits at a range of three hundred yards from his unsuspecting quarry, while lying on his belly like a snake.

In the obscurity of the night, these destructive vessels were impelled against the unguarded and unsuspecting fleet of the Romans, who were awakened by the sense of their instant danger.

He was a skilled and unremorseful thief, preying mostly on unsuspecting children and always after checking to make sure neither Jenny nor I was watching.