Sample Sentences fordisinclined (editor-reviewed)
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She is disinclined to spend money while she is still in debt.disinclined = reluctant
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I'm disinclined to believe him.
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All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies. (source)disinclined = made reluctant
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Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was particularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter. (source)disinclined = reluctant
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Again he seemed disinclined to say anything.† (source)
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Even so, the Irishmen seemed disinclined to dismount.† (source)
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Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency, and this was especially true in Chris's case.† (source)
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But rendered useless by his fear and his disinclination to action.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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But I felt it; and it did not disincline me towards him; though I felt impatience at what seemed like mystery in him, so imperfectly as he was known to me then.† (source)
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On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.† (source)
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Certainly, he wept for his friend, that generous yet temperamental soul who only briefly found his moment in time—and who, like this forlorn child, was disinclined to condemn the world for all its injustices.† (source)
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Only my disinclination to leave Weena, and a persuasion that if I began to slake my thirst for murder my Time Machine might suffer, restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard.† (source)
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Their conversation the preceding evening did not disincline him to seek her again; and they walked together some time, talking as before of Mr Scott and Lord Byron, and still as unable as before, and as unable as any other two readers, to think exactly alike of the merits of either, till something occasioned an almost general change amongst their party, and instead of Captain Benwick, she had Captain Harville by her side.† (source)
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Altogether too exciting to the Congolese, and disinclined to let White control the board, preferring the counsel and company of Black.† (source)
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He had not only public opinion but his own disinclination for the big wedding to support it without incongruity or paradox, as Ellen had her aunt as well as her own desire for the big wedding to support it without incongruity or paradox.† (source)
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I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding, and so put it down on the end of his bed.† (source)
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