militant
adjective
aggressively active or combative in support of a cause.
unmilitant
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a word derived from
militant.
Example Sentences
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He distilled the teachers' reluctance into an oddly unmilitant strike slogan: "Remember the dignity of our profession."
From Time Magazine Archive
Atkinson, who has delivered plenty of barbs to male chauvinists and unmilitant feminists in her time, has a new target: the welfare department.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mothers, unmilitant, lovely, moulding our manhood then, Walked in their woman's glory, swaying the might of men.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
They were pugnacious pirates; they robbed their unmilitant gray relative and chased him from the premises.
From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Thomas Fogarty
It is exactly this unmilitant quality in the Suffragettes that makes their superficial problem.
From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
