reluctancy
- a variation of reluctance.
Example Sentences
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“There seems to have been some reluctancy in a lot of citizens to be vaccinated,” the Pasco mayor said in that story.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
I am the first to deviate in any measure from the original plan, and I have done so with doubt and reluctancy.
From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington
And yet a curious reluctancy, a hesitation inexplicable—unless overwork explained it—had come over him when Siward had proposed their dining together on the very eve of his completed victory over Quarrier.
From The Fighting Chance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Fox will be Chancellor of the Exchequer, notwithstanding any reluctancy to yield to it in the Ministers; George Grenville may be offered Secretary at War; I am sure he ought to be so.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
Yet closely bitten in to me Is this armour of stiff reluctancy That keeps me impounded.
From Amores Poems by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
