disinclined

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
[1718] He doubtless felt disinclined, as have many stronger men, to meet the strain that comes when in pursuit of high public office, but there is no evidence that ill-health, if it really entered into his calculations, was the determining factor of his action.

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Or was Margarete herself disinclined,—piqued perhaps by Schiller's neglect of her, or by his passion for Charlotte von Kalb? —  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
  • The negotiated rate of interest is not high enough for me to be disinclined to borrow, at least until this credit storm blows over. —  Coyote Blog
  • More concretely, will white male swing voters be more disinclined to vote for a woman or an African American man in the general election? —  The Chicago Blog
  • Avedisian may be disinclined to run against personal friend Roberts, who is likely to run; this was the reason he did not run for lieutenant governor in 2006. —  Daily Kos
  • If the attorney general of the United States lacks the power to enforce respect for civil liberties, or even worse, is disinclined to respect them, how will the addition of this board alter the calculus? —  The Liberty Papers
 

Tags

disinclined hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 61 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a month.

Recently looked up

Sorooshian · metaphysic · enero · jacket · LinuxTag

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

be careful! the razor is razor-sharp! · minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread · beauregard · unicycle hockey