resist
verb (used with object)
to withstand, strive against, or oppose.
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I didn’t know whether to trust Alaska, and I’d certainly had enough of her unpredictability—cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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