"loth" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an archaic or literary term used to mean "unwilling" or "reluctant." Example sentence: "The young girl was loth to leave her home and venture into the unknown."
"As loth as I am to give any credit to what's happened here, which is egregious, it's clear that some of the conversations this has generated, some of the debate, probably needed to happen," he said.
But the sad fact remains that until public opinion cares more about children drowning at sea than it does about immigrants settling next door, politicians will be loth to take a lead.
Raphael wrote: "We believe our audience is sophisticated enough to accept a broad range of viewpoints, and we are loth to censor or avoid significant works of literature because they might be controversial".
For example, while shoppers are still loth to let go of the tactile shopping experience high street stores offer, they often "showroom" – trying goods in-store and then buying them cheaper online.
Politicians will be loth to do any such trimming when America's vulnerabilities, in almost every region of social policy, have been so ruthlessly exposed.
But too few Turks understand that political pluralism includes the right of minorities peacefully to demand things that the state is loth to give them.Too often, Turks question why they should be kind to Kurdish terrorists when the Basques' ETA separatists and the Irish Republican Army have been hunted down without much international outcry by Spain and Britain.
This has terrified other Japanese managers, who are loth to concede that their cash flows belong to their shareholders.
The government is also loth to anger Indian Tamils and their political parties, some of which are part of the ruling coalition, by backing the Sri Lankan government too strongly.
Why, Turkish Cypriots often ask, were outside powers so loth to speak up when they were being bullied into ethnic enclaves by the Greek-Cypriot majority in the 1960s?
Hawkish and religious parties that have been generally loth to offer the sort of territorial and other compromises needed to revive the peace process got half the seats.
Moreover, it says, an MDC-led government would include some from the ruling party as well as non-party technocrats.If the election does go ahead and Mr Mugabe wins, even organisations like the Southern African Development Community, the 14-country regional club that has been loth to criticise Mr Mugabe publicly, may become reluctant to accept his legitimacy.
