unprotestingly

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adverb

Without protest.

“The suspect unprotestingly allowed the police to lead him away.”

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Meanings

adverbunprotestingly (comparative more unprotestingly, superlative most unprotestingly)

comparative more unprotestingly · superlative most unprotestingly

  1. Without protest.

    The suspect unprotestingly allowed the police to lead him away.

    1 more example

    The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one. Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.

    1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 168

Origin

From unprotesting + -ly.

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Chicago

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