Unbeknownst
['ʌnbi'nəunst]
Examples
- No mum, but she might have thought (as a habit-like) of its standing in Johnny's light, and might have tried to bring him through it unbeknownst. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- So holding the glass behind him, he said: Doctor, couldn't you drop a bit of brandy in that unbeknownst to myself. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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