unwarily
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- Words With Friends
- 16
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- 8
Definition of unwarily
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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In an unwary manner.
“One day as I vnvvarily did gaze / on thoſe fayre eyes my loues immortall light: / the vvhiles my ſtoniſht hart ſtood in amaze, / through ſvveet illuſion of her lookes delight.”
“For in a night the best part of my power, / As I upon advantage did remove, / Were in the Washes all unwarily / Devoured by the unexpected flood.”
“Not that licence and levity and unconsented breach of faith should herein be countnanc’t, but that some conscionable, and tender pitty might be had of those who have unwarily in a thing they never practiz’d before, made themselves the bondmen of a luckles and helples matrimony.”
“Th' Ambitious Youth, too Covetous of Fame, / Too full of Angells Metal in his Frame, / Unvvarily vvas led from Vertues vvays, / Made Drunk vvith Honour, and Debauch'd vvith Praiſe.”
“[T]he rest of the morning was easily whiled away, […] in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte […]”
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Etymology
From unwary + -ly.
Words you can make from unwarily
117 playable · top: RUNWAY (12 pts)
Best play runway 12 points6-letter words
4 words5-letter words
16 words4-letter words
48 words- AWNY 10 pts
- AWRY 10 pts
- WALY 10 pts
- WANY 10 pts
- WARY 10 pts
- WILY 10 pts
- WINY 10 pts
- WIRY 10 pts
- YAWL 10 pts
- YAWN 10 pts
- AIRY 7 pts
- ARYL 7 pts
- AYIN 7 pts
- INLY 7 pts
- LAWN 7 pts
- LINY 7 pts
- LUNY 7 pts
- NARY 7 pts
- RULY 7 pts
- WAIL 7 pts
- WAIN 7 pts
- WAIR 7 pts
- WALI 7 pts
- WARN 7 pts
- WAUL 7 pts
- WAUR 7 pts
- YARN 7 pts
- YUAN 7 pts
- AIRN 4 pts
- ANIL 4 pts
- ARIL 4 pts
- LAIN 4 pts
- LAIR 4 pts
- LARI 4 pts
- LARN 4 pts
- LIAR 4 pts
- LIRA 4 pts
- LUNA 4 pts
- NAIL 4 pts
- NURL 4 pts
- RAIL 4 pts
- RAIN 4 pts
- RANI 4 pts
- RIAL 4 pts
- RUIN 4 pts
- ULAN 4 pts
- ULNA 4 pts
- UNAI 4 pts
3-letter words
35 words- WAY 9 pts
- WRY 9 pts
- WYN 9 pts
- YAW 9 pts
- ANY 6 pts
- AWL 6 pts
- AWN 6 pts
- LAW 6 pts
- LAY 6 pts
- NAW 6 pts
- NAY 6 pts
- RAW 6 pts
- RAY 6 pts
- RYA 6 pts
- RYU 6 pts
- WAN 6 pts
- WAR 6 pts
- WIN 6 pts
- YAR 6 pts
- YIN 6 pts
- AIL 3 pts
- AIN 3 pts
- AIR 3 pts
- ANI 3 pts
- LAR 3 pts
- LIN 3 pts
- LUN 3 pts
- NIL 3 pts
- RAI 3 pts
- RAN 3 pts
- RIA 3 pts
- RIN 3 pts
- RUN 3 pts
- UNI 3 pts
- URN 3 pts
2-letter words
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