Sentence examples for were loath from inspiring English sources
adjective
Unwilling, reluctant; averse, disinclined
- I was loath to return to the office without the Henderson file.
Drivers were loath to touch their horns.
They were loath to break from routine, however.
Labor insiders, especially Gillard, were loath to tell their secrets.
But they were loath to discuss the downturn on the record.
While Australians were loath to tighten their belts, a new environmentalism was growing.
The librarians in Somers were loath to enact a hard and fast rule.
"When I came to the agency, companies were loath to report," she said.
Yet we were loath to re-enter the flat atmosphere of daily life.
Executives at nonprofits said they were loath to cut programs and were hoping to avoid layoffs.
This raised the ire of Americans who were loath to relinquish to foreigners the soil that fed them.
British taxidermists said they were loath to trade in rhino products for fear of attracting criminal elements, anyway.
