Definition of Loath

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Definition of Loath
	Loath Hateful; odious; disliked. Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. Related Definitions: As, Averse, Aversion, Disgust, Disliked, Filled, Hateful, Loath, Odious, Or, Part, Reluctant, To, Unwilling, With

Loath Quotations

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.
Samuel Johnson

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
C. Wright Mills

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
Bob Edwards

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.
Jim Walsh

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.
Alexander Henry

Loath Translations

loath in German is abgeneigt
loath in Italian is contrario
loath in Norwegian is uvillig
loath in Spanish is renuente

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