Protestive
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Expressing protest. not-comparable
"Acts include attempt to take, reach for peer's toy, offer-withdraw toy either without vocalization and with neutral affect, or with no more than a brief and mildly protestive vocalization and/or facial expression of frown or pucker."
Example
More examples"Acts include attempt to take, reach for peer's toy, offer-withdraw toy either without vocalization and with neutral affect, or with no more than a brief and mildly protestive vocalization and/or facial expression of frown or pucker."
Etymology
From protest + -ive.
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