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      »   The adj unwilling has 2 meanings (first 1 from tagged texts)
  • unwilling -- (not Disposed1.) Dispose -- (give, sell, or transfer to another; "She disposed of her parents' possessions")

    2.) Discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away -- (throw or cast away; "Put away your worries")

    disposed or Inclined1.) Tend, be given, lean, incline, run -- (have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence")

    2.) Incline -- (bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well; "He inclined his ear to the wise old man")

    inclined toward; "an unwilling assistant")
  • unwilling -- (in Spite1.) Malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom -- (feeling a need to see others suffer)

    2.) Cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness -- (malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty)

    spite of Contrary1.) Reverse, contrary, opposite -- (a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true")

    2.) Contrary -- (exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty")

    contrary volition)

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