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- adjective Not
aggressive .Peaceable . Notviolent
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- adjective not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness
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Examples
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▶ An "unaggressive" brown and white dog was reported as missing from Bonner Hall.
The Guardian Sonia Minden 2010
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The MPs, including the climate sceptic Graham Stringer, were unaggressive and seemed to be going through the motions.
Hacked climate emails: MPs rake over the coals but find no spark Damian Carrington 2010
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Bora Horza threw his lot in with Idirans, a pious galactic megaforce that chose to oppose Culture's unaggressive expansionism promoted by the promise of leisure and technological advancement.
Archive 2010-07-01 2010
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Bora Horza threw his lot in with Idirans, a pious galactic megaforce that chose to oppose Culture's unaggressive expansionism promoted by the promise of leisure and technological advancement.
Genre Classics: Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks (Book Review) 2010
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Dear, lovable Brian, as unaggressive a human as ever existed, had been murdered because of something to do with Sara.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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Dear, lovable Brian, as unaggressive a human as ever existed, had been murdered because of something to do with Sara.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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I'm more than just a bit uncomfortable with the underlying (and unsupported) assumption found in both of these posts at the Beckner-Posner Blog which discuss the gender gap in education: namely, that girl students are more docile, unaggressive and patient than boy students.
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Dear, lovable Brian, as unaggressive a human as ever existed, had been murdered because of something to do with Sara.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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I'm more than just a bit uncomfortable with the underlying (and unsupported) assumption found in both of these posts at the Beckner-Posner Blog which discuss the gender gap in education: namely, that girl students are more docile, unaggressive and patient than boy students.
March 2008 2008
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I'm more than just a bit uncomfortable with the underlying (and unsupported) assumption found in both of these posts at the Beckner-Posner Blog which discuss the gender gap in education: namely, that girl students are more docile, unaggressive and patient than boy students.
round up 2008
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