Forced and Reluctant

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Forced adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.

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Reluctant and forced are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reluctant" instead an adjective "Forced".

Nearby Words: force, forceful, forcible, forcefully, forcibly

Reluctant adjective - Slow to begin or proceed with a course of action because of doubts or uncertainty.

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Forced and reluctant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Forced" instead an adjective "Reluctant".

Nearby Words: reluctance, reluctantly

Version 1.7 downplays it by making it more explicit that she's reluctant and forced to do it (as well as having the victims be ransomed off instead of sold into slavery), but she's still trying to kidnap civilian girls for ransom.

Source: Video Game / DID Napper
An episode of The Muppet Show featured John Cleese as a (Kayfabe) extremely reluctant host who was forced to perform show tunes against his will.

Source: Forced Meme
Mistaken for Cheating: Dale is discovered by his wife and daughters in a hotel room about to have (forced and extremely reluctant) sex with Julia in the ultimate Oh Crap!

Source: Film / Horrible Bosses

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