Unprotesting

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not protesting; compliant, docile.

    "And yet she could find nothing to say in opposition to this; consequently, she had walked away unprotesting, and that act was so contrary to her disposition that it saddened her."

Example

More examples

"And yet she could find nothing to say in opposition to this; consequently, she had walked away unprotesting, and that act was so contrary to her disposition that it saddened her."

Etymology

From un- + protesting.

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