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was reluctantly
adverb
In a reluctant or hesitant manner.
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This was reluctantly conceded.
And even that was reluctantly.
"Leslie's resignation was reluctantly accepted.
King was reluctantly spirited away to safety.
Permission was reluctantly granted and a page ripped out.
Merkel was reluctantly persuaded that the cause of Europe overrode her citizens' Euro-bile.
In Lynchburg, S.C., in 2010, a write-in candidate for mayor was reluctantly sworn in.
The corrections commissioner, Glenn Goord, said he was reluctantly ordering a statewide policy on swapping shifts.
"That was a huge change, even if it was reluctantly done".
If a second textbook was needed that wouldn't fit inside, it was reluctantly carried outside.
For a visit to a Welsh slate quarry a sound-film camera was reluctantly made available.
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