What is "unwittingly"

Usage examples of "unwittingly".

As a matter of fact, Bill Browder had brought me to the drugstore and had been so clever in a conversation that I unwittingly gave the druggist the impression it was all right with me to tap the wires.

Moreover, she so organized her system of espionage as to make the old accountant tell her unwittingly all that he knew of the private life led by Denis, his wife Marthe, and their children, Lucien, Paul, and Hortense all, indeed, that was done and said in the modest little pavilion where the young people, in spite of their increasing fortune, were still residing, evincing no ambitious haste to occupy the large house on the quay.

It seems that I have unwittingly misled you for the past fifteen years.

I caused harm, unwittingly, to a human being on the ship Planch had hired to find the Spear of Glory.

Alexandra no longer had a way to sneak away from the castle unescorted, no way to unwittingly place herself in danger of being brutally raped.

Dayuma had forgotten a large part of it, and had unwittingly jumbled up Auca, Quichua, a smattering of Spanish, and a little English intonation for good measure.

Hart had unwittingly helped him by choosing to bring Earl Millhouse to Burnt Prairie.

Moran began for strictly scientific and humanitarian reasons, unwittingly became, in your hands, the slickest hijack operation in maritime history.

Claudia battened down her instinctive sense of outrage and revulsion, her anger at the way the girl was unwittingly intruding on the privacy of her lovemaking with Garth, defiling it almost, her training coming to the fore as she calmly ignored what the girl was saying.

He was unwittingly brought to me, his footsteps carrying him to within an inch of my face where they would halt, his black suede shoes stuck fast to the spot.

Rechromed and fully reconditioned, the stove would cost a fortune, though one oven would never work right and the hip young thing who bought it would unwittingly underbake her bread.

Unwittingly, Victor Batyrev, a mathematician from the University of Essen, revealed such an idea through a pair of papers released in the spring and summer of 1992, Batyrev had become very interested in mirror symmetry, especially in the wake of the success of Candelas and his collaborators in using it to solve the sphere-counting problem described at the end of Chapter 10.

They had made the law unwittingly, for threefourths of the voters objected to it, and yet three-fourths of the votes were in favour of it.

Jojasta, Bomba and the two men set to work to skin and quarter one of the dead jaguars that had unwittingly furnished them a feast.

Let me tell you at this juncture, my son, that while it is good to feel sorrow over the death of a loved one, undue grief and mourning can prevent the freeing of a soul, as by your vibrations of grief you unwittingly call us to your sides to try and comfort you.