uncombative

Susan Sontag, who was the president I succeeded, had made a bevy of enemies which I—mild, uncombative, bored—soothed to some extent.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

Susan Sontag, who was the president I succeeded, had made a bevy of enemies which I—mild, uncombative, bored—soothed to some extent.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

Why has the Tory opposition been so uncombative and useless.

Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008

M. Arago also came off with very doubtful honours from a wrestle with the uncombative Martyr; who is perfectly clear

Contributions to All the Year Round 2004

So the children came, and thanks to the peaceful, uncombative nature of Italian boys, who get on with much less waylaying and thumping and bullying than boys of northern blood, they have not been molested by their companions who still live the wild life of the streets, and they have only once suffered through interference of the priests.

Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

But there's a distinctively uncombative tone to their support.

Ars Technica Matthew Lasar 2011

Bill asks "Why has the Tory opposition been so uncombative and useless.

Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008

“If you haven’t got something to put it in, food will escape you – even something as uncombative and unresourceful as an oat,” she wrote.

The story of the first human tool: the humble container Michael Marshall 2026