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
The water-lily closes, but With wonderful reluctancy; As if it troubled her to shut Her door of welcome to the bee.
From Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa
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 Holme Lee
With much reluctancy the governor signed it, and thereby put the power of war and peace into Bacon's hands.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
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 Jonathan Swift
