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unresisting

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unresisting [ˌunrɪˈzɪstɪŋ]
adj
not fighting against something or someone; yielding she lay unresisting beneath him
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Adj.1.unresistingunresisting - offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt
resistless, supine
passive, inactive - lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith
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unresisting [ˈʌnrɪˈzɪstɪŋ] ADJ → sumiso
unresisting
adj → widerstandslos, keinen Widerstand leistend attr; I pushed open the unresisting door → ich stieß die Tür auf, die ohne Weiteres nachgab


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He moved through the hours as a man in a maze, unrecognizable to himself, half unconscious, half heedless of the fact that the garments of his carefully cultivated antagonism to the world and to his fellows had slipped very easily from his unresisting shoulders.
The Malefactor by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
Alexey Alexandrovitch stood still and said nothing, but his face struck Stepan Arkadyevitch by its expression of an unresisting sacrifice.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
She was merely his chattel now, his convenience, his dog, his cringing and helpless slave, the humble and unresisting victim of his capricious temper and vicious nature.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
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