Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not resisted; not opposed. Resistless; irresistible; such as cannot be successfully opposed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not resisted; unopposed.
- adjective rare Resistless.
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- adjective Not
resisted ;unopposed ,undefied .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But a rapid, easy, unresisted victory, is too much for the credulity of the most careless reader.
Bad 2010
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Mona Charen, a syndicated columnist writing in the Examiner, says that voters "betrayed their kids" and that President Obama could have stopped it: "For most District children, who were just placing a foot on the proverbial ladder of opportunity, the election was a buzz saw -- unresisted by the first black president."
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But a rapid, easy, unresisted victory, is too much for the credulity of the most careless reader.
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Barack Obama's irresistible, or at least unresisted, propensity for self-aggrandizement bubbled up yet again during his recent trip to the Far East when he proclaimed himself "America's first Pacific president."
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She gave to her, therefore, an unresisted, though unreturned embrace, and went to the dining-parlour.
Camilla 2008
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Today, with Fallon gone and Petraeus unresisted, we got the news we knew was coming.
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Alas! what fiend can suggest more desperate counsels than those adopted under the guidance of our own violent and unresisted passions?
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Gazing at the image, which seemed no more than a faint palimpsest of her former self, she began slowly and deliberately to demolish her carefully constructed defences and let the turbulent past, first like a swelling stream and then a river in spate, break through unresisted and take possession of her mind.
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The figure of this man is peculiarly noble and stately, and his voice has that deep fullness of accent which implies unresisted authority.
Redgauntlet 2008
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The image I like is from old cartoons, maybe Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, when the 'anti-hero' comes charging at the cottage door to break it down and the 'hero' simply steps aside andopens the door, and lets the anti-hero's OWN MOMENTUM, unresisted, go flying through the cottage and out the back door.
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