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

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

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 Beverley, Robert

Fox will be Chancellor of the Exchequer, notwithstanding any reluctancy to yield to it in the Ministers; George Grenville may be offered Secretary at War; I am sure he ought to be so.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

To these had nature joined and annexed me: now she parts us; I am ready to depart, as from friends and kinsmen, but yet without either reluctancy or compulsion.

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome