Thesaurus / unwillingness
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Although there’s widespread support for more diversity in education, contracting and public employment, most voters were unwilling to take this step.
MORNING REPORT: COUNCIL PREZ RACE REVIVING SOME 2018 TENSIONSVOICE OF SAN DIEGONOVEMBER 25, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThere were evacuation orders in place for some half a million people across Louisiana and Texas, but as is always the case during severe weather events, some residents were unwilling or unable to relocate.
HURRICANE LAURA IS THE STRONGEST STORM TO HIT LOUISIANA IN MORE THAN A CENTURYSARA CHODOSHAUGUST 28, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEThat means, for example, it could take a while for unemployed workers to find new jobs, if the businesses that managed to weather the crisis are unwilling or unable to quickly scale up to where they were before the recession.
EVEN WITH A VACCINE, THE ECONOMY COULD TAKE MANY MONTHS TO RETURN TO NORMALAMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUXAUGUST 25, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTWhile more than 90 percent of Simon’s tenants have reopened, foot traffic remains slower than usual and many remain unable or unwilling to pay rent.
AMERICA’S LARGEST SHOPPING MALL OWNER GETS A NEW TENANT: ITSELFDANIEL MALLOYAUGUST 20, 2020OZYMental-health patients are often unreliable narrators when it comes to their health—unable or unwilling to identify their symptoms.
MACHINES CAN SPOT MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES—IF YOU HAND OVER YOUR PERSONAL DATABOBBIE JOHNSONAUGUST 13, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIf you exhibit any modest unwillingness, they laugh at you, and perhaps two or three of them will come in to rally Monsieur.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEYHow jealously these were guarded appears also in the unwillingness to multiply oaths of office.
A SHORT HISTORY OF RHODE ISLANDGEORGE WASHINGTON GREENEIn this he doubtless was influenced chiefly by his unwillingness to miss a battle, especially against such great numerical odds.
THE LIFE OF NELSON, VOL. I (OF 2)A. T. (ALFRED THAYER) MAHANThe commander watched them, on his face the blankness of unwillingness to believe.
SPACE PRISONTOM GODWINIf he had shown any unwillingness they would have pushed their way in.
THE HIGHGRADERWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINEWORDS RELATED TO UNWILLINGNESS
- averseness
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- demurral
- doubt
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- misgiving
- mistrust
- oscillation
- pause
- procrastination
- qualm
- reluctance
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticism
- stammering
- stumbling
- stuttering
- tentativeness
- timidity
- timidness
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- wavering
- averseness
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- demurral
- doubt
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- misgiving
- mistrust
- oscillation
- pause
- procrastination
- qualm
- reluctance
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticism
- stammering
- stumbling
- stuttering
- tentativeness
- timidity
- timidness
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- wavering
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