How to Use loath in a Sentence
loath
adjective
- She was loath to admit her mistakes.
- I was loath to accept his claim of having climbed Mount Everest.
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The girls were happy in Warsaw and loath to move again.
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Ed Caesar,
The New Yorker,
20 June 2022
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The cruise ship’s crew was loath to speak When a voyage was aborted.
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Pat Myers,
Washington Post,
18 Aug. 2022
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People on the left are loath to live with people on the right, and vice versa.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
31 Aug. 2020
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Patients are loath to bring up issues of cost, our study found.
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Jules Lipoff,
STAT,
3 Apr. 2018
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Still, Mitchell is loath to call the show a retrospective.
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Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2019
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The court could also stream oral arguments, though the justices have been loath to do so in the past.
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Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2020
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Comcast is loath to bid against itself, the people said.
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Shalini Ramachandran,
WSJ,
13 July 2018
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Acquaintances who haven’t seen each other in a year are loath to shake hands.
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John Schandelmeier,
Anchorage Daily News,
6 June 2020
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The project had a producer on board who was loath to take the writer on board because of his lack of credits.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2024
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Though Pashinyan is loath to say it, some observers see Moscow’s hand in Tuesday’s vote.
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Washington Post,
3 May 2018
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And yet the writers are also loath to relinquish the story’s twisty, true-crime roots.
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Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2022
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This is a clear sign of why Republicans are so loath to defy Trump.
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Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2021
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By all accounts, Dr. Kaloyeros was loath to take orders from anybody.
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Vivian Wang,
New York Times,
5 July 2018
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Though her creators are loath to admit it, the Melody character is, of course, a fiction.
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Emma Grey Ellis,
Wired,
19 Feb. 2020
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Those who do earn advanced degrees can be loath to return.
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Neal Morton,
USA TODAY,
13 Apr. 2021
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Police unions and top officials are often loath to speak out against one of their own.
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Aidan Gardiner,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2021
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But that did little to sway Peruvians who were loath to accept him.
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Franklin Briceño and Christine Armario,
USA TODAY,
16 Nov. 2020
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Americans were loath to pay taxes to sustain the costs of empire.
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Washington Post,
19 Nov. 2021
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That did little to sway Peruvians who were loath to accept him.
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Arkansas Online,
15 Nov. 2020
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These days, most internet searchers are loath to scroll through pages of search results to find the most relevant links.
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John Hall,
Forbes,
12 Dec. 2021
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Lawyers for cities and counties are loath to give states control of the opioid litigation, and that is one of the reasons.
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Eric Heisig,
cleveland,
22 Oct. 2019
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For both moral and business reasons, Alam was loath to put his employees in the path of a virus that was still stampeding across the state.
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Matthew Shaer,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2020
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But many here are loath to attach themselves to his only living son.
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Tribune News Service,
Hartford Courant,
10 Jan. 2024
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But other sources say that Sony is loath to part with the valuable EMI catalog, with all of its iconic songs.
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Ed Christman,
Billboard,
6 Apr. 2018
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States run their own elections, and Congress has been loath to interfere.
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Lisa Mascaro,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
4 Jan. 2021
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But the prosecutors learned FBI agents were still loath to conduct a surprise search.
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Anchorage Daily News,
1 Mar. 2023
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While McBride may still be loath to impeach a fellow Republican, others in Oklahoma have been banging that drum for nearly a year.
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Samantha Riedel,
Them,
14 Aug. 2024
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Companies are loath to use sample data in order to build a working system, with 86% wanting to concentrate on their actual data.
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Megan Poinski,
Forbes,
12 Sep. 2024
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