reluctantly

English

Etymology

reluctant +‎ -ly

Adverb

reluctantly (comparative more reluctantly, superlative most reluctantly)

In a reluctant or hesitant manner.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 5, in The Hocussing of Cigarette‎:
  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.

Translations

in a reluctant manner

Chinese:
Mandarin: 勉強 (zh), 勉强 (zh) (miǎnqiǎng)
Czech: váhavě
Dutch: met tegenzin
Finnish: vastahakoisesti (fi)
French: à contrecœur (fr)
German: ungern (de)
Greek: διστακτικά (el) (distaktiká)

Italian: svogliatamente (it), di malavoglia, malvolentieri, senza alcun interesse, con riluttanza
Japanese: しぶしぶ (shibushibu), 否々乍ら (いやいやながら, iyaiya-nagara)
Korean: 마지못해 (majimothae)
Navajo: tʼáá tiʼída
Portuguese: relutantemente
Russian: неохо́тно (ru) (neoxótno), с неохо́той (s neoxótoj)
Spanish: a regañadientes (es), de mala gana

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