(Usually followed by `to') strongly opposed.
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Examples for "reluctant"
Examples for "reluctant"
1Public health officials are therefore reluctant to speak about an exit strategy.
2Negotiators were reluctant to comment, beyond saying the situation was extremely difficult.
3Therefore, the middle management are very reluctant to report all the cases.
4Industry officials are usually reluctant to discuss their security arrangements in detail.
5Foreign investors are also reluctant to pledge funds without faster political reform.
1The political system appears unable or unwilling to respond to the crisis.
2The result: an arrogance that makes colleagues unwilling to work with you.
3Albertsons said it was unwilling to change the terms of the agreement.
4Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid said he was unwilling to reopen negotiations.
5Ruuqo did not speak for a moment, unwilling to risk Jandru's anger.
1The resulting nuclear crisis sent risk-averse sentiment coursing through global financial markets.
2But borrowing costs remained elevated given the broader risk-averse sentiment across markets.
3The election outcome in the euro zone saw some investors turning risk-averse.
4Bonds are seen as relative safe havens when investors become risk averse.
5Perhaps the EU is relaxed and risk-loving, while the UK is risk-averse.
1Steel was nothing loth to find himself in the fresh air again.
2Sinti in public positions are still loth to admit to their ethnicity.
3No fear of that.' Lionel was loth to put his playmate down.
4But no one was in sight, and he was loth to move.
5The miners seemed loth to eat, being excited by the gold nuggets.
1I was always interested in chickens, and dosed all the indisposed as:
2The animals become indisposed, and the secretion of milk is much lessened.
3If the watchman found him again, he'd just say he was indisposed.
4Write him that I am indisposed, and that will end the matter.
5The Commission feels indisposed to initiate any movement looking to its suspension.
1Keep this antipathetic relationship and begin again but now include the action.
2Nor did the two often meet socially since their natures were antipathetic.
3As to Costa, I confess that he was always antipathetic to me.
4Probably it was some family bond that united two such antipathetic natures.
5Nothing is more antipathetic to me than a coarse and ignorant anglophobia.
1But with dissimilitudes no conjunction can be effected, because they are antipathetical.
2To this impressionable man, Parisian badinage-notto call it anything stronger-waspositively antipathetical.
3But of all Orientals, the most antipathetical companion to an Englishman is, I believe, an East-Indian.
4He was an antipathetical being, with a peculiar power and gift of treading on everybody's tenderest place.
1Analysts say the army is loath to step into the political fray.
2William knows he ought to go home, but he's loath to leave.
3The heart cries out fiercely for its recompense; is loath to wait.
4Instantly, nothing loath, he found himself in the midst of the fighting.
5It fights a titanic struggle, for winter is loath to let go.
6The hedgehog being lazy and loath to move-laydead-simmering in his fat.
7Mahony was loath to damp her pleasure straightway; he bided his time.
8Nothing loath, the overdressed boy opened the bag and displayed his plunder.
9The people are loath to kill them-donot kill them, in fact.
10When West walks into a room, half the occupants already loath him.
11Even after these many years, the king was loath to do so.
12Edenists were loath to use nanonic-supplement boosting unless there was no alternative.
13These people were loath to bear them in opposition to our rights.
14She was loath to have me away from her in this ordeal.
15Then releasing him he said to the others who were nothing loath:
16Lois was nothing loath, and in a clear, well-modulated voice she began:
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