as in forced
not made or done willingly or by choice
unwilling contributions from city employees who felt pressured to do so
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Recent Examples of unwilling
Gen Z’s new goalposts America has never reckoned with a generation unwilling to blame themselves for the failure of its Dream.
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Alice Lassman, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
As for Pluto, Thug was frustrated and unwilling to do a Free Young Thug benefit show.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 Sep. 2025
This reality should motivate a responsible government—one not run by Hamas—to act in constructive ways while providing Israel recourse if Palestinian leaders proved unable or unwilling to meet their international obligations.
—Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2025
But wooing Western partners would likely involve some compromises that these dictators are probably unwilling to make.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unwilling
Alice Lassman, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
As for Pluto, Thug was frustrated and unwilling to do a Free Young Thug benefit show.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 Sep. 2025
This reality should motivate a responsible government—one not run by Hamas—to act in constructive ways while providing Israel recourse if Palestinian leaders proved unable or unwilling to meet their international obligations.
—Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2025
But wooing Western partners would likely involve some compromises that these dictators are probably unwilling to make.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwilling
Adjective
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The humor feels more forced, like the characters (and especially Oliver) are no longer actual characters, but just walking jokes.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The other dozen arrived thanks to Anisimova’s six unforced errors and six forced errors.—
Howard Fendrich,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Mid-century collective behavior theories considered social movements to be nonrational, spontaneous events occurring during moments of social and cultural breakdown.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Sep. 2025
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This bill would entrench West Oakland and many other neighborhoods across the state as sacrifice zones, forcing us to deal with toxic chemicals and spontaneous fires for the sake of corporate profits.—
Brian Beveridge,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Police determined the injury was accidental and not child abuse.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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The sound does much of the work in action sequences obscured by blinding snowstorms and flashing emergency lights, punctuated by creative acts of accidental self-harm that save our protagonists from certain death more than once.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Winters writes that this initial system of coerced labor didn’t go very well for the elites.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Aug. 2025
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Like Netflix's popular 2015 docuseries Making a Murderer, The Yogurt Shop Murders explores unethical interrogation tactics used by law enforcement and questions of coerced confessions.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Unwilling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwilling. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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