(Usually followed by `to') strongly opposed.
1
Steel was nothing loth to find himself in the fresh air again.
2
Sinti in public positions are still loth to admit to their ethnicity.
3
No fear of that.' Lionel was loth to put his playmate down.
4
But no one was in sight, and he was loth to move.
5
The miners seemed loth to eat, being excited by the gold nuggets.
6
Moreover, he was loth to be thus disturbed in his sombre reverie.
7
They are loth to leave it, and would ever enter it again.
8
And then I very little marvel that they are loth to die.
9
I am loth to put you away, but it rests with yourself.
10
As a rule men are loth to send their fathers to death.
11
Hubert, nothing loth, told the story with which our readers are acquainted.
12
Upon my word, I am loth to kill so fair a fool.
13
Our adieux paid to Captain Boyton, no one seems loth to land.
14
He was loth to allow Lady Merton to enter, but Elizabeth persisted.
15
The approach of Christmas finds one loth to leave one's usual haunts.
16
Mr Greenleaf, nothing loth, sat down and drew Marian to his knee.
