loath to
Antonyms
Examples
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
So, loath to suffer mute. We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear.
Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.
Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.