loth
Britishadjective
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With 22 races next season, Miami would make 23 in 2021, pushing to the limit teams already loth to add meetings.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2019
The guitarist said the other members have also tried to oust him from his ongoing position as a co-director of the Priest organization, a role he’s loth to relinquish.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2018
There are other, far more numerous protagonists, of course, and a week after the vote millions are still loth to scrub off their personal memento: the purple ink on their index finger.
From Economist ● May 17, 2018
Still, his institutionalist bent and relative moderation suggest he would be loth to upend a right several generations of American women have come to rely on.
From Economist ● May 4, 2018
So time unreckoned passed, until Gimli saw a sight that he was ever afterwards loth to recall.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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