resigned
adjective
submissive or acquiescent.
unresigned
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a word derived from
resigned.
Example Sentences
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It is written and read to provide human beings with lives they’re unresigned to not having.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2010
Sometimes bitter, sometimes buoyant, Jo is valiantly unresigned to the acrid facts of her life.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’m a widder,” she said to big Tom, in a tone not unresigned.
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett
And when, still unresigned, I said more, he went on, very kindly, a little amused it seemed.
From August First by Arthur Ignatius Keller
He had not wished to sit there at all and he was so unresigned as to be badly in need of the soothing influences of Morning Prayer.
From Robinetta by Allan McAulay
