protestive

adj

protestive

adj

Etymology From protest + -ive.

1

Expressing protest.

Acts include attempt to take, reach for peer's toy, offer-withdraw toy either without vocalization and with neutral affect, or with no more than a brief and mildly protestive vocalization and/or facial expression of frown or pucker.1981, Wanda C. Bronson, Toddlers' Behaviors with Agemates:

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