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reluctant English

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Definitions in simple English

reluctant

If you are reluctant to do something, you do not want to do it. My son was reluctant to go to school today because he has a test. She gave him a reluctant smile.

reluctant

(= loath) unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom a reluctant smile loath to admit a mistake disinclined to become involved they were usually reluctant to socialize reluctant to help not eager foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways fresh from college and reluctant for the moment to marry him

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Simple sentences

Some soldiers were reluctant to obey the commands.
The mother was reluctant to leave her children alone.
He was reluctant to go there.
She was reluctant to reveal her secret.
Tom is reluctant to leave.
Tom is reluctant.
Some employers are reluctant to take on people who have recently been released from jail.
She was reluctant to marry him.
Why are you so reluctant?
You don't seem to understand why I'm reluctant to do that.
Tom seemed to be reluctant to help me.
Tom seemed reluctant to say anything.
Tom looked reluctant to do that.
Tom said Mary seemed reluctant to eat what he had cooked for her.
Too long a holiday makes one reluctant to start work again.
The restraining role that the community once played is losing its force as adults become reluctant to reprimand other people's unruly children.
She is reluctant to marry him.
Why are you being so reluctant?
Tom was reluctant to leave.
Tom seems reluctant to help me.
Tom was reluctant to talk about it.
Tom was reluctant to admit it.
Tom seemed reluctant to do that.
He was reluctant, but he agreed.

Movie subtitles

The doctor seems reluctant to discuss his medical experiences.
And if I'm reluctant to go with you?
I should be very reluctant to do that, sir.
Circumstances, under, over which neither of us has the least control, force me to a step I am most reluctant to take.
I am reluctant to do this, monsieur, particularly on Mademoiselle DuBois' account, but I can see no other way.
It made you reluctant to board any kind of vehicle, didn't it?
Were you reluctant?
You wanna enjoy some scenery en route and you're not reluctant to spend an extra four bits for a detour with Mother Nature.
Yes, I noticed that the learned counsel was tending to make points rather than ask questions. But I was reluctant to interfere, knowing how he resents interruption.
The reluctant arsonist.
It's because of his wife that he's reluctant to join the cooperative.
The French were a little reluctant to trust me alone with all this money.
He's paid to create twitchings in our reluctant souls.
To live better, to own things, to acquire this good taste you enjoy and which I'm reluctant to give up.
Your Lordship notices the reluctant way in which the witness answers questions.
I approached you. You were reluctant.
If he's reluctant to confess. the police will find a suicide. and a signed confession. complete in every detail.
With the reluctant compliments of Max?
Men are reluctant to leave their families and farms.
To live better, to own things I couldn't afford. To acquire this good taste which you now enjoy. and which I should be very reluctant to give up.
I was instructed to give you this in case you proved reluctant.
You were reluctant.
To live better, to own things I couldn't afford, to acquire this good taste you enjoy and which I'm reluctant to give up.
I'm reluctant to let you do it.
The personnel manager, while reluctant to discuss the matter. did inform me that when told you were being retired. you attempted to attack him physically.
Why is so reluctant to do this?
I'm reluctant as Father isn't well.
Some are reluctant but it's worth it.
He was very reluctant to go.
If you were reluctant to dress in front of me.
Even myself, a reluctant person that i am, this time, the proofs were evident.
If I was reluctant to get married, it was fear that you would see him again.

News and current affairs

It is also difficult to grasp why China is so reluctant to reduce its bilateral surplus, given meager returns on its massive holdings of US government securities and a sustained risk of large capital losses in the future.
With policymakers reluctant to focus on the imperatives of structural healing, the result will be yet another growth scare - or worse.
In fact, it is reluctant to say or do anything publicly that might raise China's hackles.
The reason Europeans are reluctant to increase defense spending is expense.
They are reluctant members of the Bretton Woods institutions, which are dominated by countries that are no longer dominant.
Until recently, many professional economists would be reluctant to write a popular book.
This is not really what anybody wants, not even the Germans, who are reluctant hegemons.
Perhaps because Iraq will define his legacy, he has proven reluctant to let go at a point when his policy appears to be a disaster.
Congress is reluctant to be portrayed as failing to support troops in the field; while they will criticize, they will not block Bush's plan.
Only China, long reluctant to flex its diplomatic muscles, now has the power to find a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear problem.
It is understandable that the Chinese are now reluctant to invest more money in the US.
Other qualified people from emerging markets have been reluctant to put their hats into the ring - it is a brutal job, with a travel schedule that requires physical stamina to match wisdom and experience.
The question remains whether Bashar understands that peace is not only about regaining the Golan, but also about normalization of relations with Israel, which his father was reluctant to allow.
Indeed, Obama himself was reportedly reluctant to accept Petraeus's resignation.
For its part, Russia appears reluctant to pressure Iran to reining in its nuclear ambitions.
But even the most reluctant policymakers recognize that the cost of inaction is too great.
For its part, France has been reluctant to build an interconnected European grid, owing to its heavy reliance on nuclear energy.
At the same time, the main parties find it hard to address the country's problems, because they are reluctant to call for sacrifice before an election.
Fearful of a relapse of end-market demand in a still-shaky post-crisis world, Asian policymakers have been reluctant to take an aggressive stand for price stability.
Businesses are reluctant to invest at a time when consumer demand is plummeting and they face unprecedented risk penalties on their borrowing costs.
But this position looks increasingly doubtful when the banks are sitting on piles of cash while creditworthy consumers and businesses are reluctant to borrow.
In the Hollywood tradition, of course, the American hero fighting an indigenous enemy is innocent and moral, a reluctant warrior bringing democracy, or at least justice, to feral savages.
Originally reluctant to accept a Europe with autonomous military capacity, the United Kingdom had learned from the intervention in Kosovo that the EU must be able to respond to crises rapidly and efficiently.
Today, geography still plays a role, though it is Turkey's contiguity with Syria, Iraq, and Iran that has left the US reluctant to make a fuss about press freedom.
Germany, traumatized by the memory of hyperinflation in the 1920's and the consequent rise of Hitler in the 1930's, is reluctant to sow the seeds of future inflation by incurring too much debt.
As long as NATO remains reluctant to enter into a dialogue with the SCO, such a cautious attitude looks set to linger, and may even intensify.

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