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    disinclined


    1. Rather than picking her petals off one by one in the time honoured fashion of lovers everywhere, Tom elected, being in a romantic mood and disinclined to do harm to such a simple little bloom, to kiss each petal in turn


    2. Tom elected, being in a romantic mood and disinclined to do harm


    3. Francois had never felt more disinclined to


    4. At first he was disinclined to believe me, but when he caught on, he became excited


    5. Thus the need for torture of civilians was not great and I am disinclined to believe it


    6. If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity


    7. The logical thing would have been to toss it away, but somehow he was disinclined to do this


    8. 2 The young man was disinclined to talk, and so Jesus made a second approach to his soul, saying: "I understand you come up in these hills to get away from folks; so, of course, you do not want to talk with me, but I would like to know whether you are familiar with these hills; do you know the direction of the trails? and, perchance, could you inform me as to the best route to Phenix?" Now this youth was very familiar with these mountains, and he really became much interested in telling Jesus the way to Phenix, so much so that he marked out all the trails on the ground and fully explained every detail


    9. Tough, wiry, self disciplined to a fault and disinclined to take any shit from her kids, genetic influences notwithstanding


    10. who dwells in constant awareness of God is of necessity disinclined to

    11. She who had been disinclined to speak above a whisper when Priscilla went in was able at the end of the visit to pour forth conversation in streams, and quite loud conversation, and even interspersed with chuckles


    12. Lorry and Defarge were rather disinclined to this course, and in favour of one of them remaining


    13. Luzhin, a rupture to which I believe she is herself not disinclined, if she could see the way to it


    14. Heathcliff, who grew more and more disinclined to society, had almost banished Earnshaw from his apartment


    15. Frank, by experience, was well aware of obesity’s insidious nature and the awful consequences it poised, and he was somewhat disinclined to offer any help based on his view being that Mac was seeking to exact some kind of revenge for what he was going through


    16. Its tight, even grain makes it strong but flexible, easy to bend yet disinclined to twist, warp, or cup


    17. Darya Alexandrovna felt disinclined to leave the peasant women, so interesting to her was their conversation, so completely identical were all their interests


    18. She had by now got her household matters so satisfactorily arranged, thanks to Marya Philimonovna, that she was disinclined to make any change in them; besides, she had no faith in Levin’s knowledge of farming


    19. Personally, I’m strongly disinclined to think they were responsible, since they were the ones who found it and removed it—before anyone else had an opportunity to see it, fortunately


    20. Frankly, the tone of his reports is panicky enough I’m disinclined to believe his estimates, but I’ve got damn-all from any other source to confirm that

    21. The grotesque nature of the event helped to detract from its importance, for the papers were disinclined to believe the facts as reported to them


    22. Father Ahndyr Brauhylo, the Schuelerite under-priest assigned to Truculent to oversee the prisoners packed into her hold, was determined to see them delivered to their destination and consigned to the Punishment, but he was disinclined to be any more brutal about it than he had to


    23. It just crossed her mind, too, that he might have a faint recollection of his tender vagary, and was disinclined to allude to it from a conviction that she would take amatory advantage of the opportunity it gave her of appealing to him anew not to go


    24. " He felt fearfully disinclined to pull off the blanket, get up, get cold, but all at once something unpleasant ran over his leg again


    25. The rebuff he had met with in his first attempt to win Lydgate's confidence, disinclined him to a second; but this news of the execution being actually in the house, determined the Vicar to overcome his reluctance


    26. A trader who is disinclined to adjust is at greater risk of not realizing a profit on any one hedge


    27. The prospect of that dinner in the intimate home circle of the man he so admired had greatly interested Prince Andrew, especially as he had not yet seen Speranski in his domestic surroundings, but now he felt disinclined to go to it


    28. It was evident that Marius had his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it as his own,—preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean


    29. Fanny was very anxious to be useful, and not to appear above her home, or in any way disqualified or disinclined, by her foreign education, from contributing her help to its comforts, and therefore set about working for Sam immediately; and by working early and late, with perseverance and great despatch, did so much that the boy was shipped off at last, with more than half his linen ready


    30. Clayton, bewildered and confused, hesitated to follow him, for he thought he was but being led more deeply into the mazes of the forest; but the ape-man, seeing him disinclined to follow, returned, and, grasping him by the coat, dragged him along until he was convinced that Clayton understood what was required of him

    31. The terrible disasters at the Ealing and South Kensington laboratories have disinclined analysts for further investigations upon the latter


    32. she is herself not disinclined, if she could see the way to it


    33. "If you want to go out, let's go together," he said, disinclined to be parted from his brother, who seemed positively breathing out freshness and energy


    34. She had by now got her household matters so satisfactorily arranged, thanks to Marya Philimonovna, that she was disinclined to make any change in them; besides, she had no faith in Levin's knowledge of farming


    35. But next day, while finishing his breakfast, he felt terribly disinclined for the visit; he felt, as it were, shy of meeting them for the first time after his grief


    36. He meant not to go anywhere before dinner that day, and to write some long-postponed letters; but somehow he felt disinclined to leave his place in the porch, and he was as reluctant to go back into the hut as if it had been a prison


    37. But if, by the people, from whose attack the state saves us, we are to understand those men who commit crimes, we know that they are not some especial beings, like rapacious animals among the sheep, but just such people as we are, who are just as disinclined to commit crimes as those against whom they commit them


    38. The prospect of that dinner in the intimate home circle of the man he so admired had greatly interested Prince Andrew, especially as he had not yet seen Speránski in his domestic surroundings, but now he felt disinclined to go to it


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    Synonyms for "disinclined"

    disinclined hostile unwilling reluctant loath opposed inimical indisposed

    "disinclined" definitions

    unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval