Tom and Mary are loath to share any details of their private life.
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Loath
/ləʊθ/
Synonyms for "loath" (40 found)
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Adjective(4 words)
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3 entrieshesitant adjectivereluctant adjectiveunwilling adjective
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3 entrieshesitant studentreluctant participantunwilling witness
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6 entriesbe loath toloath to admitloath to commitloath to concedeloath to refuseloath to speak
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2 entriesmore loathmost loath
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16 total sentences available.
Sir Robert Saville writing to Sir Robert Cotton, appointing an interview with the founder of the Bodleian Library, cautions Sir Robert, that “If he held any book so dear as that he would be loath to lose it, he should not let Sir Thomas out of his sight, but set ‘the boke’ aside beforehand.”
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AI companies are loath to reveal their secret sauce.
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Now, imposing such tariffs or trade barriers and restrictions of any kind are steps that I am loath to take. And in a moment I'll mention the sound economic reasons for this: that over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. But the Japanese semiconductors were a special case.
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