OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 18875

loath

/ləʊθ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
poco dispuesto • reticente
Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling. Always followed by a verbal phrase.
"And thereupon I pledge thee," said the young nobleman, "which on any other argument I were loth to do—thinking of Ned as somewhat the cut of a villain."
I was loath to return to the office without the Henderson file.