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blindsided

[ blahynd-sahy-did ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Sports. tackled, hit, or attacked by an opponent on the blind side, out of the player’s field of vision:
The blindsided offensive lineman was taken down by the defensive tackle coming around the other way.
attacked critically or taken by surprise where one is vulnerable, uninformed or unprepared, etc.:
Told by a cryptic university official that his keynote address was being canceled “for political reasons,” the blindsided philanthropist was left searching for answers.
(of such an attack, tackle, etc.) delivered from the blind side, unexpectedly, or in a way that exposes or takes advantage of a vulnerability:
A staff meeting is no place for a blindsided assault on an administrator.

First recorded in 1985–90; blindside + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; blindside + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

After that, the roles started to cool off a bit (see: the Lifetime film Blindsided), and then came True Detective.

Dehlin was similarly blindsided by the threat of excommunication.

Cantor and his team, assuming a relatively easy victory was imminent, were blindsided last Tuesday in a double-digit loss.

“I was blindsided,” he told reporters, as he denied any “knowledge or involvement” in the incident.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told CBS he was blindsided by the move.

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