indisposed

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"Sorry to hear you are indisposed, my dear

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  1. adjective Mildly ill.
  2. adjective Averse; disinclined: was clearly indisposed to grant their request.

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  • From Whitehall to Burlington we proceeded in a steamboat; and there I was so much indisposed, that is was necessary to call a physician. —  Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
  • The moment that I entered the apartment, I perceived that Ellen was indisposed--that something had occurred, since the preceding night, to give her anxiety or pain. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843
  • To-morrow you must be indisposed, and keep your room from fatigue. —  Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
  • But unfortunately, sir uncle, he is a little indisposed--oh, nothing grave; merely sufficient to make him keep his cabin. —  Captain Blood
  • "Are the girls ready They--they are indisposed, and won't be able to go to-night What! —  The Red Seal
 

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/ɪndɪsˈpoʊzd/
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