reluctant

Some of the most explosive opportunities could be based around things that the Western world seems reluctant to adopt.

I was reluctant to ask anything too specific, because I felt like I would be asking for trouble!

But American officials remained reluctant to acknowledge it.

And if candidates on the ballot this year are reluctant to campaign alongside Sanders, they are not shy about taking his money.

Rick Grimes, played by Andrew Lincoln, begins the series reluctant and bitter.

It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.

He only tore himself from her reluctant arms as the final whistle sounded from the engine.

With this political subjection one is reluctant to associate a more sordid kind of obligation.

The woman seemed very reluctant to accept the offer, pleading various excuses.

The courts are still more reluctant to admit intoxication as an excuse for criminal acts.