unwarily

unwary +‎ -ly

unwarily (comparative more unwarily, superlative most unwarily)

1. In an unwary manner.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “(please specify the sonnet number or title)”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, OCLC 932931864; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, OCLC 474036557:

     One day as I unwarily did gaze
     On those fayre eyes, my loves immortall light;
     The whiles my stonisht hart stood in amaze,
     Through sweet illusion of her lookes delight;

   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene vii]:

     For in a night the best part of my power,
     As I upon advantage did remove,
     Were in the Washes all unwarily
     Devoured by the unexpected flood.

   • 1681, John Dryden, “Absalom and Achitophel” lines 309-312,

     Th’ Ambitious Youth, too Covetous of Fame,

     Too full of Angels Metal in his Frame,

     Unwarily was led from Vertues ways,

     Made Drunk with Honour, and debauch’d with Praise.

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 20599507:

     […] the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, […] in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte […]