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unheroically en · ADV

Etymology

From unheroic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In an unheroic way.
   • Her memoir describes what it’s like to hate the Nazis — as she and her husband did — but to protest unheroically: making a snide comment when a building super rants against “unpatriotic people”; not finding humor in a party member’s joke; walking out of a movie in which a Jewish prime minister is executed (“the audience burst into applause”). 2007 February 4, “Nonfiction Chronicle”, in New York Times:

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