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1
free in expressing one's true feelings and opinions
- the swimming coach quickly regretted his unguarded comments about the young swimmer's limitations
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- artless,
- earnest,
- guileless,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- naive
- (or naïve),
- natural,
- real,
- sincere,
- unaffected,
- undesigning,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious
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2
lacking protection from danger or resistance against attack
- an unguarded gate that would later prove to be the fatal weakness in the city's defenses
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3
not paying or showing close attention especially for the purpose of avoiding trouble
- in an unguarded moment I let my mind wander and smashed my car into a tree
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The first known use of unguarded was circa 1593
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