malgré lui

British  

/ malɡre lyi /

adverb

1. in spite of himself

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malgré lui

He had no hankering for the East and no grudge against fate for making him a Western man malgré lui.

From A Touch of Sun and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock

Yet it was seldom and malgré lui, while he allowed the mere exercise of his humour itself too scantily for his own safety and his readers' pleasure.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

This epigram or epitaph was written by Lord I-don't-know-who, upon Doctor Addington—Pitt's Addington—in old French:   Cy dessous reposant     Le sieur Addington git:   Politique soi-disant,     Médecin malgré lui.

From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

I am quite aware that the theory of the spiritualists makes of many a conjurer a medium malgré lui, and says he ought to come out in his true colours.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

Molière, it has been ascertained, discovered in the Italian theatre at Paris his "Médecin malgré lui," his "Etourdi," his "L'Avare," and his "Scapin."

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac