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UNSUSPICIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not suspicious
Example:
deceiving the unsuspecting public
Synonyms:
unsuspecting; unsuspicious
Classified under:
Similar:
trustful; trusting (inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust)
Context examples:
Well, then, replied Miss Crawford more seriously, but without at all believing her, to convince me that you suspect no trick, and are as unsuspicious of compliment as I have always found you, take the necklace and say no more about it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
For a moment or two nothing was said, and she was unsuspicious of having excited any particular interest, till she found her arm drawn within his, and pressed against his heart, and heard him thus saying, in a tone of great sensibility, speaking low, “Time, my dearest Emma, time will heal the wound. Your own excellent sense—your exertions for your father's sake—I know you will not allow yourself—.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She felt Edmund's kindness with all, and more than all, the sensibility which he, unsuspicious of her fond attachment, could be aware of; but that he should forego any enjoyment on her account gave her pain, and her own satisfaction in seeing Sotherton would be nothing without him.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Could he have seen the heart, he would have cared very little for the lungs; but without the most distant imagination of the impending evil, without the slightest perception of any thing extraordinary in the looks or ways of either, he repeated to them very comfortably all the articles of news he had received from Mr. Perry, and talked on with much self-contentment, totally unsuspicious of what they could have told him in return.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Sir Thomas's parental solicitude and high sense of honour and decorum, Edmund's upright principles, unsuspicious temper, and genuine strength of feeling, made her think it scarcely possible for them to support life and reason under such disgrace; and it appeared to her that, as far as this world alone was concerned, the greatest blessing to every one of kindred with Mrs. Rushworth would be instant annihilation.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Weston, kind-hearted and musical, was particularly interested by the circumstance, and Emma could not help being amused at her perseverance in dwelling on the subject; and having so much to ask and to say as to tone, touch, and pedal, totally unsuspicious of that wish of saying as little about it as possible, which she plainly read in the fair heroine's countenance.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
