reluctantly
adverb
without really wanting to; unwillingly.
unreluctantly
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a word derived from
reluctantly.
Example Sentences
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“My grandfather was unreluctantly a big part of the civil rights movement with his black players,” said grandson John Todd Wooden, 55.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2020
She pronounced travellers with uncommon glee;—at least I thought so,—and, nettled at her indifference, could not help replying, You are very happy, madam;—you part with your friends very unreluctantly, I perceive.
From Barford Abbey by Susannah Minific Gunning
The wretched cannot want more of life, and the happy men, men like Valerius, go unreluctantly, like well-fed guests from a banquet, to enter upon untroubled rest.
From Roads from Rome by Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson
And she, who had formerly been heard to say, "she would not touch him with a pair of tongs," now unreluctantly gave him her envied hand at a ball at Bagnigge Wells.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Maria Edgeworth
A magistrate is wanted; they will, in time, invest him with the office voluntarily and unreluctantly.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
