Loathest [adjective]

The reports provide an unguarded accounting of bad behavior by airline customers, something executives hit by a steep drop in travel and billions in pandemic-related losses are loath to share themselves.

He did not tell the name of his friend, who, as if loath to cross the plank, held back for a few more words.

Young Richard, never loath to fortify himself, proved amenable enough to the stiffly laced Canary that his friend set before him.

This warrior, very loath to miss the spectacle of a burning, sullenly glided after the woman.

The Pallas, as though loath to pass the wreck-pack, was curving inward to follow its rim.

Loath though I am to discredit so charming a story, duty compels me to state that it is wholly fictitious.

More and more slowly Michael would glide along, loath to desert the dreaming populations of dusk.

But the captain is still looking off to us, as if loath to desert us.

She insisted upon a verbal assurance, which Eleanor was loath to give.

I was loath to intrude after my great rudeness, but he would not let me off.