How to Use loath in a Sentence

loath

adjective

• She was loath to admit her mistakes.
• I was loath to accept his claim of having climbed Mount Everest.
• The girls were happy in Warsaw and loath to move again.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• The cruise ship’s crew was loath to speak When a voyage was aborted.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• People on the left are loath to live with people on the right, and vice versa.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020
• Patients are loath to bring up issues of cost, our study found.
  — Jules Lipoff, STAT, 3 Apr. 2018
• Still, Mitchell is loath to call the show a retrospective.
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2019
• The court could also stream oral arguments, though the justices have been loath to do so in the past.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2020
• Comcast is loath to bid against itself, the people said.
  — Shalini Ramachandran, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• Acquaintances who haven’t seen each other in a year are loath to shake hands.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2020
• The project had a producer on board who was loath to take the writer on board because of his lack of credits.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
• Though Pashinyan is loath to say it, some observers see Moscow’s hand in Tuesday’s vote.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• And yet the writers are also loath to relinquish the story’s twisty, true-crime roots.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• This is a clear sign of why Republicans are so loath to defy Trump.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2021
• By all accounts, Dr. Kaloyeros was loath to take orders from anybody.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• Though her creators are loath to admit it, the Melody character is, of course, a fiction.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 19 Feb. 2020
• Those who do earn advanced degrees can be loath to return.
  — Neal Morton, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
• Police unions and top officials are often loath to speak out against one of their own.
  — Aidan Gardiner, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• But that did little to sway Peruvians who were loath to accept him.
  — Franklin Briceño and Christine Armario, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2020
• Americans were loath to pay taxes to sustain the costs of empire.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• That did little to sway Peruvians who were loath to accept him.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2020
• These days, most internet searchers are loath to scroll through pages of search results to find the most relevant links.
  — John Hall, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
• Lawyers for cities and counties are loath to give states control of the opioid litigation, and that is one of the reasons.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2019
• For both moral and business reasons, Alam was loath to put his employees in the path of a virus that was still stampeding across the state.
  — Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2020
• Obama was loath to take any action that might prompt the Russians to disrupt voting.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• But many here are loath to attach themselves to his only living son.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
• Adding to the complexity is that a lot of power also rests with the states, many of which have been loath to involve the feds in their response.
  — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
• But other sources say that Sony is loath to part with the valuable EMI catalog, with all of its iconic songs.
  — Ed Christman, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2018
• States run their own elections, and Congress has been loath to interfere.
  — Lisa Mascaro, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Jan. 2021
• While McBride may still be loath to impeach a fellow Republican, others in Oklahoma have been banging that drum for nearly a year.
  — Samantha Riedel, Them, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024