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unresisting

ADJECTIVE
  1. offering no resistance
    resistless hostages

How To Use unresisting In A Sentence

  • Apache helicopters pounded them with missiles, while US tanks poured cannon fire on the defeated and unresisting column.
  • In 1964, two killers enter a school for the blind and gun down an unresisting mechanics instructor, Johnny North.
  • She nodded and let him have another swallow of whiskey before she took it from his unresisting fingers and shoved the stopper back into the bottle.
  • It's what you've been groomed for, what you've been set up for, what you've been trained to believe unresistingly for all this time.
  • ‘It is useless,’ Dr. Johnson once remarked, ‘to criticize an unresisting imbecility.’
  • The rabbit was squatting by the cabbages unresisting when I was summoned to fetch him, and soon after I carried him back in the hutch he shut his eyes and died.
  • IV. ii.91 (101,4) [that spirit's possess'd with haste, That wounds the unresisting postern with these strokes] The line is irregular, and the _unresisting postern_ so strange an expression, that want of measure, and want of sense, might justly raise suspicion of an errour, yet none of the later editors seem to have supposed the place faulty, except sir Tho. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
  • The representation of Silver as quiet and unresisting, however, suggests McCrumb's ambivalent attitude towards political resistance against an oppressive state.
  • Englishmen would then die unresistingly, and they would go down in history as heroes of nonviolence.
  • She nodded and let him have another swallow of whiskey before she took it from his unresisting fingers and shoved the stopper back into the bottle.
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