Another word for unwillingly

unwillingly Synonyms

unwillingly

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grudgingly, resentfully, involuntarily, protestingly, sulkily, objecting, protesting, complaining, fighting back, under protest, without enthusiasm, with reservations, with objections, with complaints, with animadversions, with the worst will in the world, kicking and squalling*; see also angrily.

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In 1303 the pope unwillingly ratified the treaty.
The god, who had sworn to refuse Semele nothing, unwillingly consented.
By his concert with the other powers in the affair of Mehemet Ali, the tsar had abdicated his claim to a unique influence at Constantinople, and he began to revive the idea of ending the Ottoman rule in Europe, an idea which he had only unwillingly abandoned in 1829 in response to the unanimous opinion of his advisers.
The doctor got worse and worse, and in the middle of April he had unwillingly to submit to be carried in a rude litter.
Finding that diplomacy was of no avail to obtain the reparation from Castro that was demanded by their subjects, the three powers unwillingly had recourse to coercion.

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