reluctancy

Example Sentences

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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

All their outrage is occasioned by those passages in that paper, which they do not in the least pretend to answer, and with the utmost reluctancy are forced to mention.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Swift, Jonathan

I am the first to deviate in any measure from the original plan, and I have done so with doubt and reluctancy.

From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington

Often, as the long vacation of her third year at Caen approached, she caught herself musing on the probability of her recall to England with a reluctancy full of doubts and fears.

From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]

Yet closely bitten in to me Is this armour of stiff reluctancy     That keeps me impounded.

From Amores Poems by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)