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Definition of the day : « reluctant »

  • adj unenthusiastic, unwilling
Example sentences :
  • They both said that they were reluctant to send him to prison.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • Yes, his voice was reluctant; but he went at once towards the house and disappeared.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • The Hermit is silent; for, as we have said, he is reluctant in making such confessions.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • When the price of wool is high, the farmers are too reluctant to sell off their sheep, and thus become liable to an overstock.
  • Extract from : « Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 » by Henry Howland Crapo
  • But such disturbers of the order of thought Hegel is reluctant to acknowledge.
  • Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato
  • Pearson was reluctant, but he could think of no reasonable excuse.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • I did not know then that Mildred was reluctant to extinguish the last spark of hope in me.
  • Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
  • Thither I allowed her to lead me, at once eager and reluctant.
  • Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini
  • "Oh, we're celebrating," he said, rubbing his hands over the reluctant blaze.
  • Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
  • He was reluctant to exhaust a cartridge unless it was an absolute necessity.
  • Extract from : « The Fiery Totem » by Argyll Saxby