Disinclined

Examples

• Capitalists and manufacturers had been rendered so conservative by the large loss of money in the Roxbury Company, that they were disinclined to have anything further to do with it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He told me bitterly enough, poor fellow, that he understood the delicacy which disinclined me to produce it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was particularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I am strong, strongly, disinclined to avail myself of your generosity, though my helplessness yields. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He will not be disinclined to say with him:--Let alone the heavens, and study the beauties of number and figure in themselves. Plato. The Republic.
• He added that Mr. Bennet seemed wholly disinclined at present to leave London and promised to write again very soon. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Both Mr. Lorry and Defarge were rather disinclined to this course, and in favour of one of them remaining. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I found my pupil sufficiently docile, though disinclined to apply: she had not been used to regular occupation of any kind. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Lady Steyne, after the music scene, succumbed before Becky, and perhaps was not disinclined to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I am greatly, greatly, disinclined to profit by it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Robert Martin would never have proceeded so far, if he had not felt persuaded of her not being disinclined to him. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Mrs. Yeobright appeared disinclined to enter further into the question. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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