uneager

Example Sentences

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A number of clergy were hesitant to speak with me, and those who did struck me as cautious and uneager to speculate without better evidence.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2021

The Kurds, who in the past two years have vastly expanded the amount of land that they control, seem uneager to relinquish any of it.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 29, 2017

As Ghani and Abdullah fought over election results last year, Karzai’s final term stretched on months longer than scheduled — an extension some observers said suited a president viewed as uneager to relinquish power.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2015

Or the governor of Alaska, uneager to risk human lives to save seemingly doomed animals.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2012

Stephen laid the coin in her uneager hand.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James