All 9 Uses
inclined
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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- What food for gossip to those mischievously inclined.
Chpt 21 *inclined = disposed (having a tendency to favor something)
- The men, obedient as machines, rushed down the rocky incline towards the beach,
Chpt 30 *incline = slope (angle)
- Through the dense clouds of tobacco smoke that hung about in every corner, the faces of Mr. Jellyband's customers appeared red and pleasant to look at, and on good terms with themselves, their host and all the world; from every side of the room loud guffaws accompanied pleasant, if not highly intellectual, conversation—while Sally's repeated giggles testified to the good use Mr. Harry Waite was making of the short time she seemed inclined to spare him.†
Chpt 2
- How that stupid, dull Englishman ever came to be admitted within the intellectual circle which revolved round "the cleverest woman in Europe," as her friends unanimously called her, no one ventured to guess—golden key is said to open every door, asserted the more malignantly inclined.†
Chpt 6
- Marguerite had not tried to see Chauvelin during this last hour; she knew that his keen, fox-like eyes would terrify her at once, and incline the balance of her decision towards Armand.†
Chpt 14
- My mind is scarce inclined to dwell on thoughts of supper.†
Chpt 22
- Her feet slipped on the grassy bank, for she thought it safest not to walk near the centre of the road, and she found it difficult to keep up a sharp pace along the muddy incline.†
Chpt 27
- The minutes flew on; in this awful stillness she could not tell how fast or how slowly; she heard nothing, she saw nothing: she did not feel the sweet-smelling autumn air, scented with the briny odour of the sea, she no longer heard the murmur of the waves, the occasional rattling of a pebble, as it rolled down some steep incline.†
Chpt 29
- So strange a sound was it that the gentle breeze ceased to murmur, the tiny pebbles to roll down the steep incline!†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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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
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(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)