unprotestingly
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a word derived from
protest.
protestnounan expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid.
Example Sentences
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So even during an apocalypse there was private money around to buy luxury art, and artists able and willing, unprotestingly, to produce it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2011
Whether courting martyrdom or standing for principle, they had unprotestingly submitted to blows and injuries for their cause.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This is arrogant moviemaking: its assumption is that the proles will buy their tickets and march unprotestingly through the fun house no matter how evident is the contemptuousness of the barkers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But these are as nothing in British eyes compared with the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, in which some 700 horsemen rode unprotestingly into what every trooper knew was a trap.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She set a brisk pace down the opposite side of the road, as if assuming that Osborn might pass them unnoticing on the other, and Rokeby kept step unprotestingly.
From Married Life The True Romance by Edginton, May