as in naive
lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment
sidewalk vendors selling bogus gems to unsuspecting tourists
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Recent Examples of unsuspecting
Midfielder Luca De La Torre shot a rocket from distance on an otherwise unsuspecting attack and found the top right corner in the 50th minute, continuing a trend of conceding in the five minutes on either side of halftime.
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Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2025
Over a few days, a stalk bursts out of the ant’s head, and eventually pops open to release new spores down to the unsuspecting ants milling around on the ground below.
—New Atlas, 12 Apr. 2025
Kotcheff then directed perhaps his most popular film, the oddball comedy Weekend at Bernie’s, which starred Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as unsuspecting pawns in a mob feud that left their company’s titular CEO dead.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2025
Investigators learned that an unsuspecting citizen later gave Diego a ride to south Sacramento and dropped him off near Cosumnes River Boulevard and Bruceville Road.
—Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2025
Over a few days, a stalk bursts out of the ant’s head, and eventually pops open to release new spores down to the unsuspecting ants milling around on the ground below.
—New Atlas, 12 Apr. 2025
Kotcheff then directed perhaps his most popular film, the oddball comedy Weekend at Bernie’s, which starred Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as unsuspecting pawns in a mob feud that left their company’s titular CEO dead.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2025
Investigators learned that an unsuspecting citizen later gave Diego a ride to south Sacramento and dropped him off near Cosumnes River Boulevard and Bruceville Road.
—Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsuspecting
Adjective
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Ravi asks, an astoundingly naive question for a show like 9-1-1.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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In the February 1984 issue: Latin America: A media stereotype Over time, Vargas Llosa realized that this kind of reflexive leftism was naive.—
Ilan Stavans,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Since 1973, at least 200 innocent people have been exonerated due to wrongful convictions.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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In a nearly 400-page petition to the California Court of Appeals, filed Friday night, the LA Innocence Project argued Scott Peterson is innocent and his conviction should be overturned.—
Santina Leuci,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The simplest way, Studholme suggests, is to use one group of neutrals or a tone on tone graduation of the same color, such as Pigeon, Blue Gray, Muzzle and Cromarty from Farrow & Ball, for example.—
Ariel Okin,
Vogue,
18 Apr. 2025
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Asked who’d buy these gold cards during an Oval Office meeting with reporters in February, Trump had a simple answer.—
Meehika Barua,
HubSpot,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have given fraudsters a host of new tools to trick unwary individuals into dishonest schemes.—
Ranjita Iyer,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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That’s because the agency’s duty is to stand in the way of businesses desiring to push unsafe and ineffective nostrums at unwary consumers, and also in the way of a perverse idea that personal freedom includes the freedom to be gulled by charlatans.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Unsuspecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsuspecting. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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