UNWILLING

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unwilling adjectiv

îndărătnic, refractar, care nu e dispus;

to be unwilling to do smth. a nu fi dispus să facă ceva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I was unwilling to mention her to you then, and I am now; but she is the person of whom I speak, and with whom I think we should communicate.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But the man was unwilling to do so and said, “It may be my youngest daughter, who loves me most, and always runs to meet me when I go home.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Edmund was not unwilling to be persuaded to engage in the business; he wanted to know Fanny's feelings.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She was forced to acknowledge that she could do no good, yet was still unwilling to be away, till, touched by the thought of her father and mother, she gave it up; she consented, she was anxious to be at home.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

It was an office in short, from which, unwilling to give Edward the pain of receiving an obligation from HER, she would have been very glad to be spared herself;— but Colonel Brandon, on motives of equal delicacy, declining it likewise, still seemed so desirous of its being given through her means, that she would not on any account make farther opposition.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

But her account of every thing leaves so much to be guessed, she is so very reserved, so very unwilling to give the least information about any body, that I really think you may say what you like of your acquaintance with her.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

If there ever was a time when I felt unwilling that you should have a sorrow or anxiety which I could not share, it is now.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She met Miss Crawford within a few yards of the Parsonage, just setting out to call on her, and as it seemed to her that her friend, though obliged to insist on turning back, was unwilling to lose her walk, she explained her business at once, and observed, that if she would be so kind as to give her opinion, it might be all talked over as well without doors as within.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

But still I might not have believed it, for where the mind is perhaps rather unwilling to be convinced, it will always find something to support its doubts, if I had not, when the servant let me in today, accidentally seen a letter in his hand, directed to Mr. Willoughby in your sister's writing.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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