(Usually followed by `to') strongly opposed.
1 Analysts say the army is loath to step into the political fray.
2 William knows he ought to go home, but he's loath to leave.
3 The heart cries out fiercely for its recompense; is loath to wait.
4 Instantly, nothing loath , he found himself in the midst of the fighting.
5 It fights a titanic struggle, for winter is loath to let go.
6 The hedgehog being lazy and loath to move-laydead-simmering in his fat.
7 Mahony was loath to damp her pleasure straightway; he bided his time.
8 Nothing loath , the overdressed boy opened the bag and displayed his plunder.
9 The people are loath to kill them-donot kill them, in fact.
10 When West walks into a room, half the occupants already loath him.
11 Even after these many years, the king was loath to do so.
12 Edenists were loath to use nanonic-supplement boosting unless there was no alternative.
13 These people were loath to bear them in opposition to our rights.
14 She was loath to have me away from her in this ordeal.
15 Then releasing him he said to the others who were nothing loath :
16 Lois was nothing loath , and in a clear, well-modulated voice she began:
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