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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But that thinking is naive and sorely mistaken, says social scientist Michael Flood, who's at Queensland University of Technology in Australia.—
Michaeleen Doucleff,
NPR,
30 Apr. 2025
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The Canadian election result cautions against the Fortress North America concept, at once so domineering and so naive.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Students are expected to clear the house – shoot the bad guys and spare the innocent.—
William La Jeunesse,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
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Each person involved in this incident is presumed innocent until proven guilty.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Murder victim's family has been 'counting down the minutes' until South Carolina execution Texas pastor with simple dream killed in his own church.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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Even something as simple as hanging your own art on the walls or sharing a project online will work.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 May 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 10 May. 2025.
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