Sample Sentences forloath (editor-reviewed)
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She is loath to admit a mistake.loath = reluctant or unwilling
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Though they loath to admit it, there are serious divides splitting the party.loath = are reluctant
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Both Walt and Billie are tightly wound, emotional, loath to give ground. (source)
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Kile was really the only person I could trust with this task, though I was loath to ask him. (source)loath = very reluctant
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I must tell you that they were dreams so vivid and beautiful that I am loath to wake to reality. (source)loath = reluctant
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But though she's loath to admit it, lately that persona has begun to feel restrictive. (source)loath = reluctant or unwilling
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But, clearly, she had wanted me to have it—and wearing it, loath as I was to admit it, was smarter than running around in my camp uniform. (source)loath = reluctant
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He was loth to speak and his tale was unclear, but it is beyond all doubt that he went to Mordor, and there all that he knew was forced from him.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is a less-common spelling variant sometimes seen in the UK.
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Typical of the circumstances of the call are the dark forest, the great tree, the babbling spring, and the loathly, underestimated appearance of the carrier of the power of destiny.† (source)
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Sir, said Sir Lamorak, I am loath to have ado with you in this quarrel, for every man thinketh his own lady fairest; and though I praise the lady that I love most ye should not be wroth; for though my lady Queen Guenever, be fairest in your eye, wit ye well Queen Morgawse of Orkney is fairest in mine eye, and so every knight thinketh his own lady fairest; and wit ye well, sir, ye are the man in the world except Sir Tristram that I am most loathest to have ado withal, but, an ye will needs fight with me I shall endure you as long as I may.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou loathest" in older English, today we say "You loath."
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You were kneel'd to, and importun'd otherwise By all of us; and the fair soul herself Weigh'd between loathness and obedience at Which end o' th' beam should bow.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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She depicted his impassioned manner; beheld the indecision of both between their lothness to separate and their desire not to be observed; depicted their shaking of hands; how they probably parted with frigidity in their general contour and movements, only in the smaller features showing the spark of passion, thus invisible to all but themselves.† (source)
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27:7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She loatheth" in older English, today we say "She loaths."
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The credit for the survivors' escape has landed squarely on Gale's shoulders, although he's loath to accept it. (source)loath = reluctant or unwilling
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They had reached the porch of "The Fisherman's Rest," but Marguerite seemed loth to go within.† (source)
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The herald or announcer of the adventure, therefore, is often dark, loathly, or terrifying, judged evil by the world; yet if one could follow, the way would be opened through the walls of day into the dark where the jewels glow.† (source)
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