Synonym: disinclined, forced, involuntary, reluctant. Antonym: willing. Similar words: unwillingly, unwillingness, willing, willingly, willingness, be willing to, run wild, milling. Meaning: adj. 1. not disposed or inclined toward 2. in spite of contrary volition.
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91. Many managers of similar funds are unwilling or not allowed to make very big bets on a particular market sector.
92. She stood for a moment behind the thick black curtain, unwilling to pull it aside.
93. They are unwilling to get their hands dirty in applying what they do know.
94. The government is reportedly unwilling to enforce conservation laws in the case of influential royal parties from its Gulf allies.
95. Even though the authorities were unwilling to acknowledge the extent of the disaster, some Western aid was accepted.
96. Citizen committees endorsed the idea repeatedly, but city and county governments have been unable and unwilling to do it.
97. They were unwilling to display the collection of fighters' corpses, which were brought in at the same time.
98. He said he was unwilling to run the excerpt by itself, without any context.
99. They say some chief constables are unwilling to enforce the law, in case it provokes a violent reaction from the travellers.
100. Teenagers seem particularly unwilling to be seen as the caring and bright people they often are.
101. Unable to control the situation and unwilling to accept the real state of things the Central Bank simply closed the currency exchange.
102. He seemed unable or unwilling to marshal even what he knew on the page.
103. Diana, an unwilling international media celebrity, was having to learn on the hoof.
104. Employers may be sifting through dozens of forms and unwilling to plough through a lot of waffle.
105. Countries that seem unable or unwilling to communicate directly with each other can do so indirectly by providing information to the media.
106. When the four women finally did enroll last September(sentencedict.com), school officials were unwilling or unprepared to meet the challenge.
107. These results led the authors to assume that patients were unwilling to complain about noise levels.
108. Yet, most of us clamor for cheap, safe air transportation but are quite unwilling to pay for it.
109. They have also been unwilling to accept the wisdom that women offer.
110. The regents were still unwilling to accept verdicts of such dubious historicity.
111. Bloodied but unwilling to give up[sentencedict.com/unwilling.html], he has little hope of winning Florida or any of the Southern state primaries Tuesday.
112. Labour is clearly unwilling to address that issue, and tailors its words to suit its audience.
113. Very honestly, Petrus Partners was unwilling to make that commitment.
114. The truckle-bed had been narrow and hard, and she was profoundly unwilling to surrender herself to sleep.
115. It was only then that she was aware of Nicandra standing silent in the doorway, unwilling to interrupt a conversation.
116. And, apart from extradition, States were unwilling for the most part to contemplate co-operation in criminal prosecutions.
117. None the less, Springhall is unwilling to conclude that young people were repressed by adults.
118. Before Mr Lawson's speech the markets had decided that the Government was unwilling to contemplate another increase.
119. She seemed unwilling to acknowledge that this might not be wise and would be bound to cause her parents concern.
120. The Government Agencies in this case have not been unwilling to provide evidence, I must acknowledge that.
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