Reluctantly vs Loathly - What's the difference?
reluctantly | loathly |
In a reluctant or hesitant manner.
*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=5 loathsome; hideous
*{{quote-book, year=1596, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Faerie Queene Volume 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Her loathly visage viewing with disdaine, Eftsoones I thought her such, as she me told, And would haue kild her; but with faigned paine, The false witch did my wrathfull hand with-hold; So left her, where she now is turnd to treen mould. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1885, author=Alfred, Lord Tennyson, title=Idylls of the King, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And Merlin answered, 'Overquick art thou To catch a loathly plume fallen from the wing Of that foul bird of rapine whose whole prey Is man's good name: he never wronged his bride. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=T.S. Stribling, title=Birthright, chapter=, edition=
, passage=This unremitting insistence on his color, this continual shunting him into obscure and filthy ways, gradually gave Peter a loathly sensation. }}
In a loathsome manner; disgustingly.
Unwillingly; reluctantly.
As adverbs the difference between reluctantly and loathly
is that reluctantly is in a reluctant or hesitant manner while loathly is in a loathsome manner; disgustingly.As an adjective loathly is
loathsome; hideous.reluctantly
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Adverb
(en adverb)citation, passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}
loathly
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Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l) (dialectal)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lothli, loothly, from (etyl) .Adjective
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