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were unsuspecting
adjective
Of or pertaining to lack of suspicion.
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Exact(1)
According to the Justice Department, he claimed the credit for ineligible clients, many of whom were unsuspecting, and electronically paid himself $1,000 of the credit's value each time.
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Well, I thought it was unsuspecting.
Out-of-towners like these four young women would have been unsuspecting.
"I was unsuspecting," he said.
It's the stuff that's unsuspecting or where people aren't looking — that's the stuff that just has to stop".
(All dupes are unsuspecting, just as all goo is oleaginous; I'll hear from the Squad Squad about those redundancies, but a mouth-filling phrase suspends the rule).
Hundreds of thousands of Britons are unsuspecting participants in one of the internet's biggest cyber-attacks ever – because their broadband router has been subverted.
But if you know that the musicians auditioning are unsuspecting nonactors, you root for them to resist the sales pitch, even though poor Martin and Clarence need the sale.
Nor are unsuspecting readers likely to be duped by the spoof, in part because its stilted prose differs from Mr. Bush's colloquial style.
Or the victims are unsuspecting of the danger, like Lorin Casey Villafana, a 10-year-old from Yorktown, Tex., who was killed in 1999 by one of the two tigers kept by her stepfather.
JetBlue Airways passengers, more than a million of them, have been unsuspecting guinea pigs in a Defense Department contractor's experiment in mining commercial databases to assess the risk of a person turning out to be a terrorist.
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