reluctantly
adverb
without really wanting to; unwillingly.
half-reluctantly
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a word derived from
reluctantly.
Example Sentences
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It took a while before Myatt realised – only half-reluctantly – that he was being drawn into a gigantic fraud.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2010
"Well," she said half-reluctantly, "I suppose one would call him that."
From The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Angela half-reluctantly seated herself, watching the Abbe under the shadow of her long lashes as he sat down opposite to her.
From The Master-Christian by Marie Corelli
Then he noticed that the rustling was getting farther away, as if the man was pushing through the wood towards the moor behind it, and he turned back half-reluctantly to the road.
From Carmen's Messenger by Harold Bindloss
"I am then to call you Dicky?" asks Portia, smiling, and lifting her eyes as though half-reluctantly to his; she has quite entered into the spirit of the thing.
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
