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(Usually followed by `to') strongly opposed.
averse
loath
indisposed
antipathetic
antipathetical
disinclined
Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom.
reluctant
unwilling
Synonyms
Examples for "
reluctant
"
reluctant
Examples for "
reluctant
"
1
Public health officials are therefore
reluctant
to speak about an exit strategy.
2
Negotiators were
reluctant
to comment, beyond saying the situation was extremely difficult.
3
Therefore, the middle management are very
reluctant
to report all the cases.
4
Industry officials are usually
reluctant
to discuss their security arrangements in detail.
5
Foreign investors are also
reluctant
to pledge funds without faster political reform.
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.
loth
·
very loth
so loth
loth to
little loth
more loth