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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 Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

"I don't like to see you remaining alone," protested Hazel, as she stepped, half-reluctantly, into the launch.

From The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat by Aldridge, Janet

Mary was half-impatient, half-reluctantly admiring; not an uncommon mixture of feeling for the extreme forms of virtue to produce.

From The Secret of the Tower by Hope, Anthony

A proud but sociable little Mississippi town is shown in the act of half-reluctantly opening its doors to the officers of a couple of Federal regiments stationed within its bounds.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various