Infinitive complement

• leave: The hail lingered about for two or three days after, and seemed loth to leave.

• lose: Who is that which gave thee such an estate that thou art loth to lose?

• take: Like last year's Welcome to Sarajevo, the film is quick to condemn the war but loth to take sides.

• go: And art thou so loth to go from them to thy God?

• do: This argument involves the pulling together of material from many disciplines something research institutions are loth to do.

• see: I ' d be loth to see ' t look rusty, ' cause ' twas his.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: The hail lingered about for two or three days after, and seemed loth to leave.

Modifying Another Word

• very: We are very loth to shed blood again, and will not do so unless compelled in defense of our lives.

• so: Would they be so loth to suffer; so afraid to die?