without wishing to do something

without wishing to do something
without wishing/wanting/to do something mainly spoken phrase
used when you are going to say something that someone may not like

Without wishing to sound ungrateful, I should like to point out that you only did what you were paid to do.

Thesaurus: ways of giving your opinionsynonym
Main entry: without

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