malgré lui
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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He is one of the personages in political life who excite the sympathy of Lord Rosebery, inasmuch as he must be a peer malgré lui.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by George Newnes
In reality it was hardly more than the withdrawal from public business of a tired statesman malgré lui who had persistently sought to be relieved of his charge ever since his first appointment.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
The other night, when Hamley's Motion on behalf of Volunteers was, malgré lui, carried against the Government, you'd have thought, to look on Treasury Bench, that some good news had suddenly flashed upon them.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890 by Various
The archdeacon questioned and cross-questioned him about this, but elicited nothing, and at last remained firm in his own conviction that he was destined, malgré lui, to be the brother-in-law of Mr. Slope.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Windham then quoted a phrase from Molière's "Médecin malgré lui": "If I cannot make him dumb, I will make you deaf."
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
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