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Example sentences for "disinclined"

Lexicographically close words:
disillusioning; disillusionment; disillusionments; disillusions; disinclination; disinfect; disinfectant; disinfectants; disinfected; disinfecting
  1. They were smoking their pipes, sipping coffee, and singing and looking very dignified and disinclined to move.

  2. The American Consul is of a dark hue, something more than a mulatto, and one of our party whose notions were formerly in sympathy with slaveholding, was rather disinclined to accept the hospitality of a gentleman of African descent.

  3. He was not so disinclined to a truce, which might give time for their coming.

  4. If she were disinclined to the proposed match, it would be obviously of no advantage to give it publicity.

  5. The other people in the house may be busy or disinclined to take part in any game.

  6. They become moody and taciturn, or disinclined to meet their friends or take part in a conversation.

  7. My lot might have been worse," he thought, as he broke his loaf; he was disinclined to eat; the filthy odours of the cabin pursued him.

  8. He was disinclined to seek the discomfiture of another useless argument, but neither could he be content in his conscience to let this matter wholly alone.

  9. Michael felt strangely disinclined to exert himself to get up and ride from sunrise until sundown.

  10. As the dignified personage seemed to be disinclined to volunteer any information, and he was unable to give Michael a satisfactory answer to the questions he asked him, there was nothing else to do but to let him return to his meditations.

  11. Monster meetings, the ungrateful return for past kindness, the subscriptions in Ireland to Repeal rent and O'Connell tribute, will have disinclined the charitable here to make any great exertions for Irish relief.

  12. Thus, fractures of the base, for instance, were less constant in their course and position.

  13. In a patient wounded at Kamelfontein the bullet entered four inches below the acromion, pierced the deltoid, splintered the humerus, and crossed the axilla.

  14. In instances in which the soft parts alone were perforated, I am disinclined to believe that bullets of small calibre, either regulation or soft-nosed, were responsible for the injuries.

  15. I am disinclined from my general experience to believe that explosive injuries of the soft parts were to be thus explained.

  16. The afternoon had been very oppressive, and the horses were greatly disinclined to exert themselves, though my mare went very well.

  17. Mr. George was at first a little disinclined to adopt this plan; but Rollo seemed very earnest about it, and finally he consented.

  18. She was evidently disinclined to go any farther.

  19. They are a speculating race, sir, disinclined to work for white folks without security, planning how to live by only working for themselves.

  20. Mr Jay was more particular, however, on this point, and seemed disinclined to commence the negotiation in any form, till the powers had been exchanged.

  21. He was searching the point of land with his glass, and seemed disinclined to continue the subject, so with rather unpleasant emotions, I concluded to wait for developments.

  22. If I thought so, Malison, on my honour, I should feel disinclined to proceed one step further in the business.

  23. Or rather you were disinclined for exertion.

  24. Nevertheless he determined to go and do his best to get a private talk with Edith Morriston, however disinclined she might be to grant it.

  25. I have had very good times there," Gifford answered, with a certain reserve as though disinclined to discuss the subject with a stranger.

  26. If you desire to reach your moujik you must reach him à travers his dirt and his parasites: if you are disinclined to face these, then leave your moujik alone.

  27. Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.

  28. Not sociable or companionable; disinclined to social intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn.

  29. The artillery then told with such good effect on the dense masses of the enemy, that they were more than ever disinclined to approach us.

  30. Nott was unwilling to expose his troops to the severities of the winter season; and the enemy seemed equally disinclined for war whilst the snow was on the ground.

  31. The artillerymen were disinclined to hand them over to the British; and though great doubts were entertained as to whether they were in reality worth anything, it was hard to compass a loan of the suspected pieces.

  32. Some rude backgammon and draft boards had been constructed for prison service; and there was quite enough elasticity of spirits left among the captives to render them not disinclined for more active and boisterous sports.

  33. But these are matters for future consideration; and should his Majesty be disinclined to use his utmost endeavours for the furtherance of the wishes of government, such unwillingness must, of course, be regarded as hostility.

  34. For hours, days, weeks, he was disinclined to work.

  35. Really the greatest kindness my friends can do me is to leave me in peaceful obscurity, for I have lived so secluded a life that I am more and more disinclined to crowds of any kind.

  36. Argument aside, however, I should be disinclined to commit myself to any scheme of immediate action, which, as I have indicated to you, I believe at present premature.

  37. Richard looked at her moodily for a moment, then turned away to the workshop; where, after his ill success with his mother, he was hardly less disinclined to challenge his father than before, for he knew him inexpugnable.

  38. The little was from the church-organ, and his not unjustifiable prejudice against its surroundings, had disinclined him to listen when it spoke.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disinclined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.