reluctant
adjective
half-reluctant
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a word derived from
reluctant.
Example Sentences
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The comedy stars Julie Harris as a half-smitten, half-reluctant lady ardently wooed by Marco St. John, a handsome lad almost half her age.
From Time Magazine Archive
Henry Fonda, as the half-reluctant, pistol-packing marshal of booming, lawless Tombstone, could hardly be better.
From Time Magazine Archive
Touching are Joan Fontaine's half-apologetic, half-reluctant reminiscences about her artist father.
From Time Magazine Archive
The comedy stars Julie Harris as a half-smitten, half-reluctant lady, ardently wooed by Marco St. John, a lad almost half her age.
From Time Magazine Archive
But few of the Montmorencis, whatever their species, left the Ghetto without pressing bits of gold into half-reluctant palms in shabby back-rooms where old friends or poor relatives mouldered.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
