All 15 Uses
inclined
in
The Once and Future King
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- The Wart found that he could keep more or less level by altering the inclination of his arm fins and the ones on his stomach.
Book 1 *inclination = angle
- An ordinary fellow, who did not spend half his life torturing himself by trying to discover what was right so as to conquer his inclination towards what was wrong...
Book 3 *inclination = tendency
- Only it is inclined to give itself airs.†
Book 1
- Curiously enough, the shields of Gothic suits were more inclined to be concave.†
Book 1
- Each of them had held the bow the right way up, had quickly found the cock feather and set it outward, each had taken hold of the string to draw the bow—most boys who have not been taught are inclined to catch hold of the nock of the arrow when they draw, between their finger and thumb, but a proper archer pulls back the string with His first two or three fingers and Sets the arrow follow it— neither of them had allowed the point to fall away to the left as they drew, nor struck their left forearms with the bowstring—two common faults with people who do not know— and each had loosed evenly without a pluck.†
Book 1
- It was inclined to rely on a series of accidents to achieve its object.†
Book 1
- "May I do that?" asked the Wart, inclined to be bloodthirsty.†
Book 1
- Family parties of the previous year's breeding were coming together in batches, and these batches were themselves inclined to join with others, possibly under the command of a grandfather, or else of a great-grandfather, or else of some noted leader in the host.†
Book 1
- They were inclined to be taciturn before the sun came, only making occasional remarks, or crying their single warning-note if danger threatened.†
Book 1
- Agravaine, the next after Gawaine, was the bully of the family—he was shifty, inclined to cry, and frightened of pain.†
Book 2
- "I incline my agreement with Toirdealbhach," said Gar-eth.†
Book 2
- I think we shall be able to get them in, and keep them fighting the right way, but they will be inclined to stick to the old habits, like Sir Bruce.†
Book 2
- You may remember from the first book that Kay was inclined to throw his tongue a bit too much, and he had got himself unpopular on account of this.†
Book 3
- When I eventually asked him what the devil he meant by deserting his own brother, at the time of our battle later on, he explained that he had thought I was inclined to be a dirty dog—though fond of me—while the maiden was a maiden after all.†
Book 3
- But the accounts of old cricket matches are inclined to be boring for those who did not actually play in them, so we must leave it unre-ported.†
Book 3
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)