unwilling

Modifying Another Word

• understandably: Effective competition can a good Bean Bag It deal are understandably unwilling.
• strangely: Margaret Thatcher's assistant, Robin Harris, is strangely unwilling to express a view on the Croatian situation.
• increasingly: The coalition of the willing seems to be increasingly unwilling.
• apparently: But the council is playing along, apparently unwilling to draw a line in the sand.

Infinitive complement

• co-operate: Any difficulties were chiefly created by the Khmer Rouge, who were unwilling to co-operate.
• cooperate: And most of those who do, are unwilling to cooperate.
• comply: If you are unwilling to comply with such request we may refuse to carry you and your Baggage.
• admit: A parent cannot compel a school to accept a pupil whom the school is, for any reason, unwilling to admit.
• accept: People are simply unwilling to accept orders from above.
• invest: I was unwilling to invest even the requested $ 4.95 to succeed in my mission.

Modifies a noun

• pawn: The island of Melos found itself an unwilling pawn in a vicious struggle between the Athenian and Spartan alliances.
• recipient: He was the unwilling recipient of baskets of fruit.
• participant: The naive Rodney is an unwilling participant in his brother's dodgy dealings.
• victim: As he is already under sentence of death everything seems to point to Ko-Ko as the unwilling victim.
• guest: I have no more to say; only linger, going out, like an unwilling guest.
• witness: An unwilling witness to pirates burying a mysterious chest.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: She seems unwilling to make a firm decision about whether gender has gray areas or is either starkly pink or blue.
• appear: The company appears unwilling to negotiate in a meaningful manner at the moment.
• remain: Yet many employers remain unwilling to take account of these wider issues.
• prove: Prefects were requested to ' persuade ' those who proved unwilling.