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reluctantly English

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What does reluctantly mean?
Definitions in simple English

reluctantly

If you do something reluctantly, you do it because you have to even though you don't want to.

reluctantly

with reluctance

Synonyms reluctantly synonyms

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Simple sentences

The thief reluctantly admitted his guilt.
He reluctantly agreed to my proposal.
She reluctantly agreed to our proposal.
Her father reluctantly consented to her marriage.
She went to see him reluctantly.
He reluctantly went to see her.
She is a genius. And I think she's even smarter than I am. I'm conceding this reluctantly, but what can I do when confronted with the truth?
Tom nodded reluctantly.
Tom reluctantly agreed.
He accepted reluctantly.
Tom reluctantly followed Mary.
I listened to him reluctantly.
He took the job reluctantly.
Tom reluctantly gave Mary what she asked for.
Tom reluctantly left.
Tom reluctantly obeyed.
Tom reluctantly went.

Movie subtitles

Very, very reluctantly, I have given him a charge.
You'd have to do the decent thing as reluctantly as only you know how.
I want you to know that I'm doing this reluctantly.
Reluctantly, I may add.
That was why I reluctantly suggested that our friends, the police, ought to be told.
We must have agreed to leave-- you reluctantly, perhaps.
Reluctantly, he agreed.
Request reluctantly approved.
Very reluctantly, I know.
And now that the director has distracted the audience with these totally extraneous vignettes, he reluctantly returns to the plot and another new character.
Mr Longbarrow has reluctantly informed me that members of your party intend to leave.
Let it read that this competency hearing was ordered by Commodore Stocker and reluctantly called by myself.
Reluctantly, one agrees.
Well, since it can only vindicate Roy, that's a suggestion I'll reluctantly endorse, Chairman Baker.
Very, very reluctantly I have given him in charge.
Put me down, you fool. - Reluctantly.
Reluctantly?
You had agreed - reluctantly, perhaps.
We all enter this reluctantly, but the die is cast.
I lose very reluctantly.
Health officials in San Francisco reluctantly admit they may have a cholera epidemic on their hands.
I lay with him every night, half willingly, half reluctantly.
It is well for you, my friend, that she went reluctantly.
Only reluctantly. Only because of this bureaucratic idiot!
Not completely and apparently reluctantly.
Mother Veroslava Antic, born Ciric, married him reluctantly.
This means that each woman, however reluctantly. will have to. accomodate more than one man.
Yvon, do not be angry, I did this reluctantly.
On returning home, she dismissed the chambermaid who reluctantly came over to help her, said that she would undress herself, and with a trembling heart went to her room, hoping to find Hermann there, yet wishing not to find him.
Reluctantly, she is beginning to abandon. all hope of recovering Leonard Zelig.
I have reluctantly granted Lieutenant Worf's request to undergo the genetronic procedure.
This February 2nd, at 7:20 and 30 seconds Punxsutawney Phil, the seer of seers prognosticator of prognosticators emerged reluctantly but alertly in Punxsu.

News and current affairs

Countries like South Korea and Japan, for example, have curtailed their imports of Iranian oil only reluctantly; countries like China and Russia rarely play straight on sanctions in the first place.
However reluctantly, Silvio Berlusconi accepted in the end that he had lost, if just by a whisker, as did Viktor Orban in Hungary.
After all, the vast majority of migrants leave home reluctantly.
Of course, the Germans have reluctantly come to accept the necessity of a banking union that includes common deposit insurance.
Sometime this month, President George W. Bush will - reluctantly - announce a new policy for the United States in Iraq.
In initiatives of this sort, agreement is obtained reluctantly and pressure could provoke harsh responses.
It is now the Israeli left that, however reluctantly, realizes that Sharon's new pragmatism may be the first step in the right direction.
Obaidullah's capture - carried out reluctantly - underscores the Pakistan military's ambiguous relationship with the Taliban.
So the emphasis on restoring Chinese commercial interests is accepted reluctantly if not completely understood.
Tung's successor, Donald Tsang, was chosen reluctantly.
Indeed, the official results understate the extent of popular dissatisfaction; many who stuck with traditional parties did so reluctantly, faute de mieux.
Even the supremacy of European law in defined areas was accepted only reluctantly by Britain, and long after many others had done so.
Now the Kingdom's longtime protector, the United States, which let down Abdullah by (reluctantly) embracing the Arab Spring, is poised to pull its troops out of neighboring Iraq.
Belatedly and somewhat reluctantly, EU leaders have now accepted that they need to deal pragmatically with Lukashenko if they want to promote reform in Belarus and shift the country from its tight orbit around Russia.
Given the recent memory of the violent French Revolution, the British elite reluctantly agreed to democratizing reforms.

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