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- adjective Not
reciprocated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not returned in kind
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Examples
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Male entitlement - “if a man gives gifts, does favors, pays for dates/drinks, acts like a therapist, does homework, is nice to the point of obsequiousness, or gives another kind of unreciprocated special treatment to a woman, then he is entitled to sex with her.”
Continuing the debate over sexual attraction, gender roles and power 2005
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Chivalry - “unless a male gives gifts, does favors, pays for dates/drinks, acts like a therapist, does homework, is nice to the point of obsequiousness, or gives another kind of unreciprocated special treatment to a woman, then he is not worthy to have sex with her.”
Continuing the debate over sexual attraction, gender roles and power 2005
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Chivalrous scripts encourage males to court females by doing them favors, paying for dates/drinks, acting like their therapists, doing their homework, being nice to the point of obsequiousness, and in general giving any kind of unreciprocated positive treatment: supposedly if a woman is given enough of such treatment, she will go ka-ching!
Continuing the debate over sexual attraction, gender roles and power 2005
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4. Beauty gives some women the ability to receive tangible material benefits such as unreciprocated favors, gifts, or dinners/meals from males.
Ohio Principal Tries to Cover Up Gang Rape in School Auditorium 2005
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4. Beauty gives some women the ability to receive tangible material benefits such as unreciprocated favors, gifts, or dinners/meals from males.
Continuing the debate over sexual attraction, gender roles and power 2005
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The tragedy of love is not (what it is thought to be) the unreciprocated love, but the meagerly returned love.
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Indeed, Write About Love documents love? from the unreciprocated to the adoration of music itself? across 11 songs, with three more recorded and set to appear as a 7in single.
Love, Belle and Sebastian-style Laura Barton 2010
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That doesn't count clubs whose interest in him was unreciprocated, which likely would make the list even longer.
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It was largely unreciprocated, and he has since moved on.
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It could mean finding a new path between the ill-considered pressure on Israel of 2009 and the unreciprocated generosity towards it of recent months.
Credit to Obama for sticking with the Middle East. But it's gone very wrong Jonathan Freedland in Washington 2010
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