"malgré lui" meaning in English

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        "3": "lui",
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      "expansion": "French lui (“him”)",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French malgré (“against”) and French lui (“him”).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1977, John Halperin, Trollope and Politics: A Study of the Pallisers and Others, page 257",
          "text": "[…] and he pities \"that class of young ladies who malgré lui are bound to fall in love with these wooden specimens of youthful manhood.\"",
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        "Contrary to their desires or ambitions."
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          "ambition",
          "ambition"
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        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "malgré lui"
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      "expansion": "French malgré (“against”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "lui",
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      },
      "expansion": "French lui (“him”)",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French malgré (“against”) and French lui (“him”).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1977, John Halperin, Trollope and Politics: A Study of the Pallisers and Others, page 257",
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      "glosses": [
        "Contrary to their desires or ambitions."
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  "word": "malgré lui"
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