unguarded

Modifying Another Word

• completely: What caught his attention most was the fact that the British baggage train was almost completely unguarded.
• totally: It was really strange to see the Palace of Westminster totally unguarded on the outside.
• so: I feel that I have betrayed myself perpetually -- so unguarded in speaking of my partiality for the church!

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• leave: There were two house fires last Saturday night, both attributed to leaving candles unguarded for the Indian festival of Diwali.

Modifies a noun

• net: Hulse offered a lifeline for Crewe six minutes later, nodding into an unguarded net from Dave Walton's cushioned header.
• moment: I'm dreadfully afraid of being tempted, at an unguarded moment, by the aunt.
• machinery: These include working at heights near open water or around unguarded machinery or fires.
• comment: Word is there is a video doing the rounds showing Jackson making unguarded comments about his fans back stage during his 1996 HIStory Tour.
• goal: Howard took one look up, saw the Flixton ' keeper out of position, and expertly steered the ball into the unguarded goal.
• fire: Examples of these included patients ' drying their clothes in front of the fire, smoking in bed, young children and unguarded fires.

Used with adjective complement

• leave: The shepherd can't keep the charging lion from his sheep, who, left unguarded, panic.
• remain: But no international groups have yet been tasked to begin training local experts, and most mass grave sites remain unguarded by authorities.