unguardedadjective
uk/ʌnˈɡɑː.dɪd/us/ʌnˈɡɑːr.dɪd/not guarded or protected:
You shouldn't leave your bag unguarded like that.
If you make an unguarded remark or say something in an unguarded moment, you tell someone something that you would usually keep secret, sometimes in a way that shows bad judgment:
In an unguarded moment, I said that I didn't trust Charles.
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Unsafe and insecure
- at stake idiom
- be on the line idiom
- day
- endangered
- exposed
- in the firing line idiom
- indefensible
- insecure
- jeopardy
- precarious
- shadow
- shaky
- sketchy
- stake
- struggle
- threat
- unattended
- unbalanced
- unsafe
- unstable
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