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Unwilling   /ənwˈɪlɪŋ/   Listen
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Unwilling  adj.  Not willing; loath; disinclined; reluctant; as, an unwilling servant. "And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, "Keep your piece nine years.""






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"Unwilling" Quotes from Famous Books



... his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well- founded fear of persecution because of his/her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion; and is unable or unwilling to avail himself/herself of the protection of that country, or to return there, for fear of persecution." The UN established the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1950 to handle refugee matters worldwide. The UN ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... Act that the first became secure, and Mr. and Mrs. Hammond have recently illumined for us the inward meaning of the second. The populace might, on occasion, be strong enough to force the elder Pitt upon an unwilling king, or to shout for Wilkes and liberty against the unconstitutional usurpation of the monarch-ridden House of Commons. Such outbursts are yet the exception to the prevailing temper. The deliberations of Parliament were still, at least technically, a secret; ...
— Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham • Harold J. Laski

... their festal hall? O! must my voice awake the song?— My skill the artful tale prolong? Yes! I am call'd—it is my doom! Unhappily, ye know not whom, Nor what, impatient ye demand! How hostile now the fever'd hand, Across these chords unwilling thrown, To echo plainings of my own! Little indeed can ye divine What song ye ask who call ...
— The Lay of Marie • Matilda Betham

... He hasn't strength of mind to quarrel. He is unwilling, like most easy-going men, to inflict that kind of pain. But he could be as cruel as the grave in other ways. Look at him. He always is in hot water about something, and never does as people expect him ...
— The Love Affairs of an Old Maid • Lilian Bell

... now she takes him by the hand, 361 A lily prison'd in a gaol of snow, Or ivory in an alabaster band; So white a friend engirts so white a foe: 364 This beauteous combat, wilful and unwilling, Show'd like two silver doves that ...
— Venus and Adonis • William Shakespeare


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