unheroically

English

Etymology

From unheroic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

unheroically (comparative more unheroically, superlative most unheroically)

1. In an unheroic way.
   • 2007 February 4, “Nonfiction Chronicle”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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”).