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inclined
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An American Tragedy
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His head ... appeared chronically to incline forward,
Chpt 2 *

incline = angle or bend
...[a] man inclined to favor conservative procedure in all things,
Chpt 3 *

inclined = with a tendency
At the same time, as he understood it, they collected money from various interested or charitably inclined business men here and there who appeared to believe in such philanthropic work.†
Chpt 1
On the contrary, he was inclined to study his parents, not too sharply or bitterly, but with a very fair grasp of their qualities and capabilities.†
Chpt 1
Because of his parents, and in spite of his looks, which were really agreeable and more appealing than most, he was inclined to misinterpret the interested looks which were cast at him occasionally by young girls in very different walks of life from him—the contemptuous and yet rather inviting way in which they looked to see if he were interested or disinterested, brave or cowardly.†
Chpt 1
Instead he replied (which was true at times) that his father canvassed for a washing machine and wringer company—and on Sundays preached—a religious revelation, which was not at all displeasing to this master of boys who were inclined to be anything but home-loving and conservative.†
Chpt 1
Too many boys, on account of the scenes and the show here, the contact made with undue luxury to which they were not accustomed—though these were not the words used by Mr. Squires—were inclined to lose their heads and go wrong.†
Chpt 1
"udders," and so on, but so grateful was he for any courtesy at this time that he was inclined to forgive his obviously kindly mentor anything for his geniality.†
Chpt 1
And there had been in the lives of most of these boys such a lack of anything that approached comfort or taste, let alone luxury, that not unlike Clyde, they were inclined to not only exaggerate the import of all that they saw, but to see in this sudden transition an opportunity to partake of it all.†
Chpt 1
"Did you see either of 'em, Clyde?" inquired Ratterer, who was inclined to favor and foster Clyde and include him in everything.†
Chpt 1
And even though in his heart this long while he had secretly rebelled against nearly all the texts and maxims to which his parents were always alluding, deeply resenting really as worthless and pointless the ragamuffin crew of wasters and failures whom they were always seeking to save, still, now he was inclined to think and hesitate.†
Chpt 1
And by then Clyde had had considerable time to meditate on all of these youths—and he was inclined to think that he was not nearly as green as they thought, or if so, at least shrewder than most of them—of a better mentality, really.†
Chpt 1
But more interesting and more to his purpose at the time was the fact that both Hegglund and Ratterer, in spite of, or possibly because of, a secret sense of superiority which they detected in Clyde, were inclined to look upon him with no little interest and to court him and to include him among all their thoughts of affairs and pleasures.†
Chpt 1
The mother and sister with whom he lived, while not without some moral although no particular religious convictions, were inclined to view life with a great deal of generosity or, as a moralist would have seen it, laxity.†
Chpt 1
And for that reason, in spite of his gaucheness (in her eyes) she was inclined to tolerate him—to see how he would do.†
Chpt 1
Recently, or since he had secured this latest place, for some reason he had seemed to her to have grown wiser, more assured, less dubious of himself, inclined to go his own way and keep his own counsel.†
Chpt 1
At the same time he was not inclined to be too unsympathetic in that respect toward her—far from it.†
Chpt 1
The day, a late January one, was inclined to be smoky with lowering clouds, especially within the environs of Kansas City.†
Chpt 1
And on this occasion Hortense was inclined to be very genial and friendly.†
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Long used to contending for himself, and having come by effort as well as results to know that he was above the average in acumen and commercial ability, he was inclined at times to be a bit intolerant of those who were not.†
Chpt 2
On returning from Chicago on this particular day, after having concluded several agreements there which spelled trade harmony and prosperity for at least one year, he was inclined to feel very much at ease and on good terms with the world.†
Chpt 2
Whereas this son of his was neat, alert, good-looking and seemingly well-mannered and intelligent, as most bell-hops were inclined to be as he noted.†
Chpt 2
For while Samuel Griffiths, as well as his son Gilbert, realized that this was small pay (not for an ordinary apprentice but for Clyde, since he was a relative) yet so inclined were both toward the practical rather than the charitable in connection with all those who worked for them, that the nearer the beginner in this factory was to the clear mark of necessity and compulsion, the better.†
Chpt 2
At first sight, and considering what his general dreams in connection with this industry were, Clyde was inclined to rebel.†
Chpt 2
In addition, not knowing just what Clyde was, or what his coming might mean to their separate and individual positions, they were inclined to be dubious and suspicious.†
Chpt 2
After a week or two, however, coming to understand that Clyde was a nephew of the president, a cousin of the secretary of the company, and hence not likely to remain here long in any menial capacity, they grew more friendly, but inclined in the face of the sense of subserviency which this inspired in them, to become jealous and suspicious of him in another way.†
Chpt 2
And because of his neatness, smartness—a touch of something that was far from humdrum or the heavy practicality of the mill and the remainder of this boarding house world, Clyde was inclined to fall in with him.†
Chpt 2
More by instinct than reason, he was inclined to stand off and look very superior—more so since those, including this very youth on whom he practised this seemed to respect him the more.†
Chpt 2
Clyde was still so dubious as to the wisdom of all this that he was inclined to be a little silent.†
Chpt 2
And the latter, now that he saw Clyde in an ordinary tuxedo with a smart pleated shirt and black tie, as opposed to the club uniform in which he had last seen him in Chicago, was inclined to think him even more attractive than before—not quite as negligible and unimportant as his son Gilbert had made out.†
Chpt 2
THE days lapsed and, although no further word came from the Griffiths, Clyde was still inclined to exaggerate the importance of this one contact and to dream from time to time of delightful meetings with those girls and how wonderful if a love affair with one of them might eventuate for him.†
Chpt 2
And since Clyde was almost always the only male present—and in these days in his best clothes—they were inclined to fix on him.†
Chpt 2
And he, in turn, when not too constrained by the memory of what Gilbert Griffiths had said to him, was inclined to think of them—certain girls in particular—with thoughts that bordered on the sensual.†
Chpt 2
And although Roberta was far from being that type, still having associated herself with them she was inclined to absorb some of their psychology in regard to themselves.†
Chpt 2
Worse than this, the various young men and girls of the particular church which she and Grace Marr attended at first, were not inclined to see Roberta or Grace as equals, since they, for the most part, were members of older and more successful families of the town.†
Chpt 2
And although, because of it, he had hitherto appeared not to notice or to give any more attention to one girl than another, still, once Roberta arrived, he was almost unconsciously inclined to drift by her table and pause in her vicinity to see how she was progressing.†
Chpt 2
And now Sondra, relieved by this and the fact that he was proving more acceptable than she had imagined he would, was inclined to make more of him than she otherwise would have done.†
Chpt 2
For Sondra Finchley, having found him so agreeable an admirer of hers, was from the first inclined neither to forget nor neglect him.†
Chpt 2
Although inclined to frown on so marked a presumption in his case, she let it pass because it was pleasing to her.†
Chpt 2
But he, true to his previous mood in regard to Clyde, was not inclined to share his son's opinion.†
Chpt 2
And in consequence, while considering Clyde as one who was unquestionably eligible socially, still, because it had been whispered about that his means were very slender, they were not inclined to look upon him as one who might aspire to marriage with any of their daughters.†
Chpt 2
And she, sensing the import of all this to Clyde, was inclined to exaggerate her own inseparable connection with it.†
Chpt 2
Nevertheless, because he had come to mean so much to her, she was by no means inclined to turn back.†
Chpt 2
Short, sensing his relief, was inclined to wonder whether there was a working-man, or whether it was not Clyde himself who was in this scrape.†
Chpt 2
In constant touch with all phases of ignorance and dereliction as well as sobriety, energy, conservatism, success and the like, he was more inclined, where fact appeared to nullify his early conclusion in regard to many things, to suspend judgment between the alleged claims of heaven and hell and leave it there suspended and undisturbed.†
Chpt 2
For although Mrs. Finchley, who was of an especially shrewd and discerning turn socially, had at first been dubious over the attentions being showered upon Clyde by her daughter and others, still observing that Clyde was more and more being entertained, not only in her own home by the group of which her daughter was a part, but elsewhere, everywhere, was at last inclined to imagine that he must be more solidly placed in this world than she had heard, and later to ask her son and even Sondra concerning him.†
Chpt 2
Indeed, in the face of such an accusation Mason was inclined to pause and consider.†
Chpt 3
Indeed quite up to the class whom he (Kraut) was inclined to respect.†
Chpt 3
For Belknap was inclined to carry himself with an air which all were inclined to respect.†
Chpt 3
For Belknap was inclined to carry himself with an air which all were inclined to respect.†
Chpt 3

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(1) (inclined as in: I'm inclined to)
a tendency, mood, desire, or attitude that favors something; or making someone favor something
(2) (incline as in: on an incline or incline his head)
to be at an angle or to bend
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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