Unintentionally
[,ʌnɪn'tɛnʃənli]
Definition
(adv.) without intention; in an unintentional manner; 'she hit him unintentionally'.
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Examples
- Forgive me, if I have unintentionally pained and shocked you, I replied. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A great deal; for there is certainly a danger of our getting unintentionally into a verbal opposition. Plato. The Republic.
- Though there Miss Podsnap unintentionally threw him out by faltering, 'Oh, is it indeed? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No, Monsieur, only an hour or two of it, and that unintentionally. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The sanatoria of our country are crowded with people who are trying to free themselves of a drug habit into which they have drifted unintentionally if not altogether unknowingly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I beg your pardon for unintentionally annoying you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources or the difficulties of my life. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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