unheroically

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Etymology

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unheroic +‎ -ally

Adverb

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unheroically (comparative more unheroically, superlative most unheroically)

  1. In an unheroic way.
    • 2007 February 4, “Nonfiction Chronicle”, in New York Times[1]:
      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”).