loath

The city was often loath to change companies, in part because it feared the disruption that canceling their routes might cause.

They were loath to sacrifice such advantages for the sake of joining hands with "Papists and monarchists."

Wake me at midnight, Chet said, not at all loath to give his partner a bit of work.

One who is always digging dugouts is loath to leave the habitation which has cost him much labor in order to live in the open.

But they still clung to the dwindling Swamp, for it was their home and they were loath to move to foreign parts.

When the forms were locked up and the next day's assignment made, the office force was loath to separate.