half-reluctant
- a word derived from reluctant.
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Central theme is the couple's slow, half-reluctant maturing through marriage and child-begetting.
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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.
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Henry Fonda, as the half-reluctant, pistol-packing marshal of booming, lawless Tombstone, could hardly be better.
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Touching are Joan Fontaine's half-apologetic, half-reluctant reminiscences about her artist father.
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The words stung her, she scarcely knew why, and what had been a half-reluctant prejudice before turned to sudden hot antagonism in Dot's heart.
From The Knave of Diamonds by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
