unprotestingly

English

Etymology

From unprotesting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

unprotestingly (comparative more unprotestingly, superlative most unprotestingly)

1. Without protest.

   The suspect unprotestingly allowed the police to lead him away.

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 168:

     The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one. Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.