aback, by surprise, impetuously, innocently, of a sudden, plunk, sharp, sudden, unconsciously, unknowingly, unsuspectingly
Definitionadv. without forethought or plan
Last update: July 22, 2015
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Pakistan's firing at Kargil took the Indian Army unawares. [Please select]
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The Mussulman population of the Morea, taken unawares, was practically exterminated during the fury of the first few days; and, most fatal of all, the defection of the Greeks of the islands crippled the Ottoman navy by depriving it of its only effective sailors. [Please select]
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"You are not taking me unawares, you know," said he. [Please select]
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We must take them unawares. [Please select]
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So he was turned unawares into a patron of painting. [Please select]
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Waverley was taken so much at unawares that he acquiesced. [Please select]
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It's rather a fool-scheme, if you ask me, but it might have been a nuisance if it had been sprung on us unawares. [Please select]
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She had looked unawares, as by the lightning glare, into a world of which she had not dreamed. [Please select]
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