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US
/ɹiˈɫəktənt, ɹɪˈɫəktənt/
]
[ UK /ɹɪlˈʌktənt/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪlˈʌktənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom
a reluctant smile
loath to admit a mistake -
disinclined to become involved
they were usually reluctant to socialize
reluctant to help -
not eager
fresh from college and reluctant for the moment to marry him
foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways
How To Use reluctant In A Sentence
- They may also be friends of the chairman, so they are reluctant to upset the applecart.
- In fact, I found myself reluctant to skip any topic in the book.
- It's amazing how many reluctant spouses become addicted after this gentle introduction.
- He it was who, in the 1850s, persuaded his reluctant coachman to make the first gliding flight in history, across the valley at Brompton.
- Which is not to say that the courts would hold the dispute justiciable – my guess is that they would still be reluctant to do so. The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review?
- A huge black beacon waddled along, dragging a reluctant mass of iron at the end of its chain cable, followed by a roughly-built "flatty" and a huge log of silkwood. Confessions of a Beachcomber
- He had, somewhat reluctantly R 'shiel thought, agreed with her plan, despite Tarja's objections. TREASON KEEP
- Longer working hours have combined with security fears which have made many parents reluctant to let children play unsupervised in the garden or visit public places without a harness.
- The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.
- The hippogryph reluctantly descended, landing near his rider. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE