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unwilling

[ uhn-wil-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

not willing; reluctant; loath; averse:
an unwilling partner in the crime.
opposed; offering resistance; stubborn or obstinate; refractory:
an unwilling captive.

unwilling

/ ʌnˈwɪlɪŋ /

before 900; Old English unwillende (not recorded in ME); un- ¹, willing

Those opposing same-sex marriage are on their heels, and increasingly unwilling or unable to make a stand against it.

A few years ago, Crowder stopped making the screws because Spinal Solutions was unwilling to pay a fair price, he said.

The Obama administration has pulled together a coalition as ineffectual as it is unwilling.

In general, Isfahan authorities have been unwilling to speak on the matter.

Many are unwilling to admit that bigotry has entered the mainstream.

As if unwilling to trust himself longer in dangerous companionship, he went up to town with Thomas Carr.

Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.

I never had to fight again except as an unwilling participant in our foreign warfare.

It is probable he wished to provide written proof of a plea that he was an unwilling agent in the clutch of a mutinous army.

Sir,—I was unwilling to write you until I had made a little trial of the Herland engine.

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