What is a good synonym of “unwantedly”?

Can you rewrite this sentence in a nicer way?

What is a good synonym for the word unwanted? I remember a word that ran off my mind.

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Most people would probably say accidentally, but personally I’d be likely to use inadvertantly. In most similar contexts

In this exact context, the intention is to place the “blame” for the error on the design of the webapp, rather than the user’s carelessness. Personally I feel that inadvertantly doesn’t do that quite so well as erroneously, by mistake, or mistakenly, all the of which seem to me more capable of implying that the user was “led astray” rather than inherently incompetent.

If the “cancel” button is misleadingly labelled and disabling the cttl option, the user instantly realises he has selected the wrong thing as soon as he clicks, it

might be reasonable to say unwittingly.

Answered on March 17, 2021.
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Most people would probably say accidentally, but personally I’d be likely to use inadvertantly. In most similar contexts

In this exact context, the intention is to place the “blame” for the error on the design of the webapp, rather than the user’s carelessness. Personally I feel that inadvertantly doesn’t do that quite so well as erroneously, by mistake, or mistakenly, all the of which seem to me more capable of implying that the user was “led astray” rather than inherently incompetent.

If the “cancel” button is misleadingly labelled and disabling the cttl option, the user instantly realises he has selected the wrong thing as soon as he clicks, it

might be reasonable to say unwittingly.

Answered on March 17, 2021.
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Most people would probably say accidentally, but personally I’d be likely to use inadvertantly. In most similar contexts

In this exact context, the intention is to place the “blame” for the error on the design of the webapp, rather than the user’s carelessness. Personally I feel that inadvertantly doesn’t do that quite so well as erroneously, by mistake, or mistakenly, all the of which seem to me more capable of implying that the user was “led astray” rather than inherently incompetent.

If the “cancel” button is misleadingly labelled and disabling the cttl option, the user instantly realises he has selected the wrong thing as soon as he clicks, it

might be reasonable to say unwittingly.

Answered on March 17, 2021.
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Most people would probably say accidentally, but personally I’d be likely to use inadvertantly. In most similar contexts

In this exact context, the intention is to place the “blame” for the error on the design of the webapp, rather than the user’s carelessness. Personally I feel that inadvertantly doesn’t do that quite so well as erroneously, by mistake, or mistakenly, all the of which seem to me more capable of implying that the user was “led astray” rather than inherently incompetent.

If the “cancel” button is misleadingly labelled and disabling the cttl option, the user instantly realises he has selected the wrong thing as soon as he clicks, it

might be reasonable to say unwittingly.

Answered on March 17, 2021.
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