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US
/dɪsɪnkɫəˈneɪʃən/
]
NOUN
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a certain degree of unwillingness
after some hesitation he agreed
his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition
a reluctance to commit himself -
that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike
his disinclination for modesty is well known
How To Use disinclination In A Sentence
- Even so, Sabriel had a strong disinclination to enter the realm of the dead until she absolutely had to. SABRIEL
- This small journey seems quite a formidable expedition to me, and that sort of cowardly feeling of incapacity and disinclination for the smallest effort or unusual exertion is the growth of a two years 'habit over that of thirty preceding ones, and is a greater sign of age than white hairs, wrinkles, or loss of teeth. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
- Hounds that show a disinclination to kill are kicked or whipped as punishment, and may later be put down.
- The genre was known for its urbane disinclination to perform any icky operations involving hearts: pouring them out, for instance, or affixing them to sleeves.
- Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself
- It should be noted, regarding Hammett's disinclination to sell out his employer in this story, that this desperately ill, lifelong claustrophobe, an old man at the age of fifty-seven, spent twenty-two weeks in federal prison during the Red-baiting fifties because he refused to give up the names of men who had trusted him. Locked Rooms
- Baron showed no disinclination to conclude their somewhat dull sederunt and consent to an early retirement. Doom Castle
- He practiced law at Florence and observed with optimate disapproval the increasing disinclination of Giuliano and Lorenzo to share power with anyone but their intimates.
- his disinclination for modesty is well known
- There was a tendency to abuse freedom, and a disinclination to accept systems.
