reluctantly

reluctant | American Dictionary

reluctant
adjective
us/rɪˈlʌk·tənt/
not wanting to do something and therefore slow to do it:
[ + to infinitive ]She had trouble sleeping but was reluctant to take sleeping pills.

reluctance

noun[ U ]us/rɪˈlʌk·təns/
The poll also showed a reluctance to accept higher taxes, particularly at the local level.

reluctantly

adverbus/rɪˈlʌk·tənt·li/
He reluctantly resigned.

Examples of reluctant

reluctant
The risk is that clinicians increasingly will be reluctant to do quite ordinary procedures to help patients because of existing guidelines.
At this critical juncture government was still reluctant to get involved but private initiative stepped in and took the lead.
Most readers interested in one volume will also want to read the other, but will be reluctant to pay £190 for the whole collection.
The director of an experimental elementary school told me that parents were reluctant at first, but he met with them regularly to change their minds.
Some artists, of course, are reluctant to explain their practice believing the work to be autonomous and capable of speaking for itself.
As will become clear later, this means that artists and producers located in lower prestige groups were more reluctant to be interviewed.
Many of those who belonged to churches were reluctant to endorse this practice, on the grounds that it encouraged promiscuity.
When refugees proved reluctant to be 'dispersed', government dismissed their resistance as 'irrational'.
He subsequently felt that it had been his own fears that made him so reluctant to allow her to share her thoughts with him.
However, both civil servants and representatives of the voluntary sector appeared reluctant to criticise the new government's proposals for the revised strategy.
Households living in the hills are therefore understandably reluctant to use manure, and to a somewhat lesser extent crop residues, for fuel.
Therefore, once a patient settles with a drug, physicians may be reluctant to experiment with new brands.
Understandably, inhabitants of villages adjacent to the colonization centres were reluctant to be resettled.
These sectors currently have little union coverage since many part-time or temporary workers are reluctant to join unions because of dues or other considerations.
The interviewers reported that more than a few respondents were suspicious of our survey's motivations and were reluctant to answer politicallyoriented questions.
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