unsuspecting

/ ˌʌnsəˈspɛktɪŋ /

adjective

1. disposed to trust; not suspicious; trusting

Derived Forms

• ˌunsusˈpectingly, adverb

Example Sentences

For roughly one minute, a Florida man unexpectedly rained blows upon an unsuspecting passenger aboard a cross-country flight heading from San Francisco toward Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon, a federal agent alleged.

From Los Angeles Times

It is also a world in which digital personae appear ready to lure the unsuspecting to places they may never return from.

From Los Angeles Times

A gang of usually three women act out a well-rehearsed script in Cantonese for an audience of one - the unsuspecting victim.

From BBC

A graceful mermaid swimming around in an industrial-strength water treatment plant in Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė’s film “Riparia” becomes a perilous siren, luring the unsuspecting to the rocks.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet the medical center and other defendants continued to “expose more unsuspecting female patients to a known serial sexual predator,” the suit alleged.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• innocent