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.
  • Patients are loath to bring up issues of cost, our study found.
    — Jules Lipoff, STAT, 3 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Acquaintances who haven’t seen each other in a year are loath to shake hands.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2020
  • Jonah Paul, like many of his peers, is loath to work in-person four days a week.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But many here are loath to attach themselves to his only living son.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Police unions and top officials are often loath to speak out against one of their own.
    — Aidan Gardiner, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Daniels was loath to pack the Scranton digs with new characters and drag the show on.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The word is Stearns, at least right now, is loath to trade from the Mets surplus of top prospects.
    — Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Both companies known to be loath to discuss numbers.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Even Republicans may be loath to roll it back in an election year.
    — Jakemeth, Fortune, 23 June 2017
  • But that did little to sway Peruvians who were loath to accept him.
    — Franklin Briceño and Christine Armario, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2020
  • That did little to sway Peruvians who were loath to accept him.
    — Franklin Briceño and Christine Armario, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Americans were loath to pay taxes to sustain the costs of empire.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Three years in, each has become dependent on the other, though both are loath to admit it.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2024
  • That’s something the central bank will be loath to do if prices continue rising.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • And yet the writers are also loath to relinquish the story’s twisty, true-crime roots.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • States run their own elections, and Congress has been loath to interfere.
    — Lisa Mascaro, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Joshua Kimmich remains the best right-back at the club, but is loath to play the position.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 28 May 2025
  • Four years ago, or even eight, Democrats—and those who support them on the internet—were loath to go that low.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Obama was loath to take any action that might prompt the Russians to disrupt voting.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Obama was loath to take any action that might prompt the Russians to disrupt voting.
    — Adam Entous, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2017
  • At first, mathematicians were loath to follow his lead.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • Though her creators are loath to admit it, the Melody character is, of course, a fiction.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Though Pashinyan is loath to say it, some observers see Moscow’s hand in Tuesday’s vote.
    — Washington Post, 3 May 2018

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