naivemainly disapproving

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not paying attention
absent
absent-minded
absent-mindedly
absent-mindedness
absently
drop/lower your guardidiom
escape someone's notice
faraway
glazed
gnat
like a bull in a china shopidiom
merrily
misfocus
moment
moony
sideline
unheeding
unmindful
unwarily
zone out

Examples of unwary

unwary
The unwary will be lulled into a false sense of security and happily accept a possibly wrong result.
Even today, the understanding of intellectual property protection in different countries, or groups of countries, is a minefield for the unwary or ill-infor med.
It is the very choice of words that contemporaries used to describe church building which can lead the unwary historian astray.
That said, there remain some unfortunate pitfalls for unwary readers which might easily have been avoided.
I say 'unwary' because the examples given make the true meaning clear enough; but not everyone takes notice of examples.
With equal artifice he often repeats himself and, furthermore, by applying a certain varnish he succeeds in making the old seem new, at least to unwary eyes.
Algebra exposed the unwary to the danger of allowing meaningless interpretations, like that of negative numbers, to creep in.
To be fair, this may be just a citation error, but the general tendency to gloss over problematic aspects of the theory are disconcerting, and misleading to the unwary reader.
A programming environment should limit the language to the pieces relevant for each stage of a course rather than leaving the entire language available to trap unwary students.
They're full of traps for the unwary.
It is all to easy for unwary scholars to fall into the trap of listing instances of 'transposed inversion chords' or 'turning chords' or 'asymmetrical enlargement'.
Many personal tragedies occur and many loan sharks are waiting to trap the unwise and the unwary who have taken on far too much debt.
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