Unheroically

Origin

unheroic + -ally

Full definition of unheroically

Adverb

1. In an unheroic way.
• 2007, February 4, , Nonfiction Chronicle, 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”).