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Synonyms for unwillingly


Grammar : Adv
Spell : uhn-wil-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈwɪl ɪŋ



Définition of unwillingly

Origin :
  • Old English unwillende, from un- (1) "not" + willing. Re-formed 16c. Related: Unwillingly; unwillingness.
  • adv reluctantly
Example sentences :
  • Into His light we advance slowly, unwillingly, driven by our pain; but we advance.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • Eccles faced him unwillingly, with a stolid front but shifty eyes.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Mr Flintwinch screwed this out of himself, unwillingly and rustily.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • Why, I said, do you not see that men are unwillingly deprived of good, and willingly of evil?
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • Unwittingly, unwillingly, Gonzaga saved the situation by that prayer.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • In him it was the almost physical charm of blind will, and she yielded to it unwillingly.
  • Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
  • Unwillingly, he went to keep his appointment with her the next morning.
  • Extract from : « David Dunne » by Belle Kanaris Maniates
  • She yielded her lips, but unwillingly; for now her mind was made up.
  • Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
  • Perhaps they had deteriorated, I said unwillingly to myself.
  • Extract from : « Notes on Life and Letters » by Joseph Conrad
  • They flew, not unwillingly, midway between the earth and the starry heaven.
  • Extract from : « The Iliad of Homer (1873) » by Homer

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