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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uncooperative
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hubbel has been a very uncooperative witness.
▪ Many of the older patients are uncooperative and difficult for the nurses to handle.
▪ Police say the boyfriend of the missing woman has been uncooperative.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For four days, authorities struggled with uncooperative weather conditions that kept divers idle and with equipment problems.
▪ His body was uncooperative enough without further restricting it.
▪ Medical help is likely to be sought only when hypoglycaemia is severe and the patient is unconscious, agitated, or uncooperative.
▪ More potent still was the dismay which gripped Washington whenever it contemplated the implications of a permanently weakened or uncooperative Britain.
▪ Professionals respond to reluctant, uncooperative or culturally different patients by unconsciously spending less time with them.
▪ The President greeted me cordially, but formally-the way he did heads of uncooperative states.
▪ When at last he succeeded the man was sullen and uncooperative, repeatedly demanding why we had come to Bahdu.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uncooperative

also uncoöperative, 1847, from un- + cooperative (adj.). Related: Uncooperatively.

Wiktionary
uncooperative

a. Not cooperative.

WordNet
uncooperative

  1. adj. unwilling to cooperate; "an uncooperative witness" [ant: cooperative]

  2. intentionally unaccommodating; "the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging" [syn: disobliging]

Usage examples of "uncooperative".

The CENTCOM commander was vocal in his criticism of Ankara and believed the Turks were doing everything they could to be uncooperative.

When she appeared unfazed, uncooperative, he braced his hands on her slender shoulders and forced her to look him full in the face.

Then, looking away, the bosun squinted at Sir Cyril, who was trying to maintain his balance on the uncooperative deck.

I was back to envisioning Caron drenched in blood, so I eschewed further debate, noted the number, and dialed it with an uncooperative finger.

I tell the estate executors that the Leabrook was uncooperative, they will probably instruct their lawyers to tie up the assets of the Daventry estate as long as possible.

Then he remembered that a long and complex meeting of the Landholders Council was being held in the lower briefing chambers, and his wife would probably come back frazzled and disgusted at the uncooperative representatives.

The crack house still thrived, the police were still uncooperative, and his neighbors were unwilling to batter through their walls of inertia and distrust even though the daily hassles and shakedowns had grown intolerable.

She kept up the routine when she got to the autostrada as well, although the suddenly uncooperative nature of her bladder and the fact that for the first time in her life she felt carsick meant that she had to stop frequently.

Twenty minutes later and the uncooperative Whitehead had failed to respond, variously, to swallowing a half bushel of grass, having his kidneys ground and punched, getting his testicles mightily squeezed, and being swung circularly in midair, this way and that, by his arms, his legs and his hair.

Amid some small protest and wailing, women, children, the aged and the uncooperative were marshaled aboard drays and sent off through the night, to a dismal gorge twenty miles south, where they would establish a temporary camp.

Even though the streets had been empty, uncooperative traffic lights had turned the ten mile drive into a half-hour trip.

So far the colony had been able to absorb both quantities and alien species, though they had followed Zainal's suggestion to let the belligerent and uncooperative Turs go off on their own in the small groups in which they arrived.