Martha Beck

Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.

American Author

Alexander Henry

It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.

American Businessman

James Gunn

I am loath to suggest 'Visitor Q' to anyone, because you've got to have a warped brain to even understand or appreciate it a little bit. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I have been blessed with a warped brain, and I really dug it.

American Director

Johnny Vegas

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

British Comedian

Jim Walsh

Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation.

Irish Politician

Florence King

We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal ideal.

American Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

French Writer

Paul Scholes

I am always loath to assign goalkeepers too much importance, but you have to make an exception for the greats.

English Athlete

Samuel Johnson

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

English Writer

Gareth Southgate

You're always loath to take a player off of his ability.

Indicates a soft refusal or mild negative feeling towards something; less strong than 'hate'.

Mild Dislike

Shows someone's personal feelings, often suggesting a struggle between desire and duty.

Personal Inclination

Doesn't mean a complete refusal, but rather an unwillingness that could be overcome.

Loath