reluctancy
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“There seems to have been some reluctancy in a lot of citizens to be vaccinated,” the Pasco mayor said in that story.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
And yet a curious reluctancy, a hesitation inexplicable—unless overwork explained it—had come over him when Siward had proposed their dining together on the very eve of his completed victory over Quarrier.
From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
A biographer records her death from smallpox when twenty-five years old, "to the unspeakable reluctancy of her relatives."
From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters
But oh, with what reluctancy did I feel myself obliged to consume time in sleep!
From The Palm Tree Blessing by W. E. Shepard
The two men bowed, Richard with reluctancy, the Captain with easy bonhomie.
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Georgette Heyer
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