Usually means: Lacking forcefulness, confidence, or decisiveness.
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  1. unassertively: Merriam-Webster
  2. unassertively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unassertively: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. unassertively: Dictionary.com
  7. unassertively: Rhymezone
  8. unassertively: FreeDictionary.org
  9. unassertively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. unassertively: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unassertively: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In an unassertive way.

Similar:
nonassertively, underassertively, assertively, unconfrontationally, unargumentatively, unexpressively, unthreateningly, unemphatically, undemonstratively, undefensively, more...

Opposite:
assertively, confidently, boldly, decisively

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Similar:
nonassertively, underassertively, assertively, unconfrontationally, unargumentatively, unexpressively, unthreateningly, unemphatically, undemonstratively, undefensively, more...

Opposite:
assertively, confidently, boldly, decisively



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