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
Leslie looked off in front of her to verify the statement, and unreluctantly settled down on the little sofa to rest awhile.
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
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
But we take the hint, and not unreluctantly depart.
From The Night Side of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Now I know—my heart knows it, for it has felt it—that she resigns herself to me unreluctantly.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
