All 9 Uses of
inclined
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- Hate as freely as you love, by inclination.†
Chpt 7inclination = tendency; or desire
- His wife was of a different inclination, of course, not only with respect to eating but with respect to almost everything in life.†
Chpt 14 *
- "A ball on an inclined plane," he said.†
Chpt 2
- who by character and constitution preferred and, for all his seeming insensitivity, immensely enjoyed the useful, immediate, palpable: ruefully smiling to himself at the neatness of phrase in a null and void affidavit, ruefully grinning at the firm, responsible solidity of the newly wired-up round of a chair (the veritable image of his soul: good wire, no loop without its function, a small detail in relation to the whole but necessary, however distasteful to people inclined toward elegance, and admirable in its small way: superfluously strung: final) so that, knowing he was not his father, he had been satisfied with what he was, had cleverly revelled in it: had not built huge barns as the C†
Chpt 3
- The policemen, it turned out, were inclined to believe Nick Slater's story, if only to be rid of him.†
Chpt 3
- He was not brave, especially, yet not cowardly either: his awareness that the gun was there on his hip made up for the shortness of stature which, before he'd joined the Police Force, had inclined him to leave trouble alone whenever possible.†
Chpt 5
- If he'd loved Millie once, the part of him that had inclined, overmatched, toward darkness and war was long dead and buried, and he was grateful.†
Chpt 15
- one might say, if one were sentimentally inclined.†
Chpt 15
- As for my own investigations, I'm inclining more and more to the persuasion that the center of it all is Time.†
Chpt 20
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
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus