unwilling

[ uhn-wil-ing ]

/ ʌnˈwɪl ɪŋ /

not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.

opposed; offering resistance; stubborn or obstinate; refractory: an unwilling captive.

Origin of unwilling

before 900; Old English unwillende (not recorded in ME); see un-¹, willing

un·will·ing·ly, adverb un·will·ing·ness, noun

Those of us who join the club of gun violence survivors do it unwillingly.

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But the small boy who was unwillingly dawdling through a series of poses for it, to-day refused all bribes to be good.

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I was at the front lines of this debate during much of my childhood, unwillingly.

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Meanwhile Fox returned home and unwillingly agreed to the arrangement with Thurlow.

The Political History of England - Vol. X. |William Hunt

If he does it willingly, he has a reward; if he does it unwillingly, still he is entrusted with a stewardship he dare not neglect.

The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians |Marcus Dods
After considerable conversation a plan was agreed upon, in which Amos Sanderson unwillingly acquiesced.

Bernard Brooks' Adventures |Horatio Alger, Jr.
Unwillingly enough the Doctors, of whom there were eight or ten sitting apart, rose to do the King's bidding.

The Ghost Kings |H. Rider Haggard
And yet she was thinking of that summer day, and the poor roses she had taken so unwillingly.

In Wild Rose Time |Amanda M. Douglas

unwilling

/ (ʌnˈwɪlɪŋ) /

unfavourably inclined; reluctant

performed, given, or said with reluctance

unwillingly, adverb unwillingness, noun