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UNGUARDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Displaying or feeling no wariness
Example:
an unguarded remark
Classified under:
Similar:
unwary (not alert to danger or deception)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking protection or a guard
Example:
his unguarded queen was open to attack
Classified under:
Similar:
vulnerable (susceptible to attack)
Context examples:
The vicious propensities—the want of principle, which he was careful to guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escape the observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself, and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments, which Mr. Darcy could not have.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
After many fruitless attempts to gain admittance to the prison, he found a strongly grated window in an unguarded part of the building, which lighted the dungeon of the unfortunate Muhammadan, who, loaded with chains, waited in despair the execution of the barbarous sentence.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Was it a fierce tiger of crime, which could only be taken fighting hard with flashing fang and claw, or would it prove to be some skulking jackal, dangerous only to the weak and unguarded?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you were aware, said Elizabeth, of the very great disadvantage to us all which must arise from the public notice of Lydia's unguarded and imprudent manner—nay, which has already arisen from it, I am sure you would judge differently in the affair.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
With many compliments to them, and much self-gratulation on the prospect of a connection between the houses, he unfolded the matter—to an audience not merely wondering, but incredulous; for Mrs. Bennet, with more perseverance than politeness, protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia, always unguarded and often uncivil, boisterously exclaimed: Good Lord! Sir William, how can you tell such a story?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
