adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beauty had become an abstraction; she was never caught off-guard by it.
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Carson seemed to have been taken off-guard by her appreciation.
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Caught off-guard Wednesday, he apologized and reversed course.
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Caught off-guard , he blushed slightly, blinked his hazy blue eyes, and looked away in embarrassment.
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Malcolm liked to rattle you, catch you off-guard by making demands nobody could possibly meet.
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When half-asleep and off-guard her vocabulary was raunchy.