Usually means: Objecting or opposing in manner.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. protestingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. protestingly: Collins English Dictionary
  3. protestingly: Wordnik
  4. protestingly: Wiktionary
  5. Protestingly, protestingly: Dictionary.com
  6. Protestingly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. protestingly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. protestingly: Rhymezone
  9. Protestingly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. protestingly: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Protestingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. protestingly: Legal dictionary
  2. protestingly: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protestingly: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protestingly: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (protestingly)

▸ adverb:  unwillingly, with protests

Similar:
à contrecœur, objectingly, remonstratingly, unwillingly, querulously, dissentingly, remonstrantly, aversely, disagreeingly, repiningly, more...

Opposite:
acquiescently, compliantly, obediently

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Similar:
à contrecœur, objectingly, remonstratingly, unwillingly, querulously, dissentingly, remonstrantly, aversely, disagreeingly, repiningly, more...

Opposite:
acquiescently, compliantly, obediently



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