reluctant

Definition for reluctant

adjective as in unenthusiastic, unwilling

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afraid, averse, cautious, circumspect, hesitant, loath, shy, slow, squeamish, uncertain, wary

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backward, calculating, chary, demurring, diffident, discouraged, disheartened, disinclined, grudging, hanging back, hesitating, indisposed, involuntary, laggard, opposed, queasy, recalcitrant, remiss, slack, tardy, uneager

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These trials are one reason, his critics allege, that he is reluctant to leave office and face the judges without the shield of his national duties, power and profile.

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They also want a firm agreement to renew the government health-insurance subsidies for low-income individuals that expire at the end of the year – something Republicans have been reluctant to do so far.

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He was reluctant to even answer the phone.

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For the sake of his health, they were reluctant to waver from it, even when Ohtani had a no-hitter through five his last time out, against the Philadelphia Phillies.

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Shayan and her brother say they are often reluctant to take the school bus that comes to collect them each weekday.

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