indisposed

How To Use indisposed In A Sentence

• If he come to see me" (as it has always been reckoned a piece of neighbourly kindness to visit the sick) "he speaks vanity; that is, he pretends friendship, and that his errand is to mourn with me and to comfort me; he tells me he is very sorry to see me so much indisposed, and wishes me my health; but it is all flattery and falsehood. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• Sheila Jones is indisposed, so the part of the Countess will be sung tonight by Della Drake.
• She has a headache and is rather indisposed.
• On another occasion, at the same theatre, the prima donna was taken suddenly ill in the midst of a terzetto, in which Tamburini had the bass, and, while supporting her on the stage, this accomplished musician actually took the soprano in his falsetto, and performed the part of the indisposed lady in a manner which drew down universal applause. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
• Especially as I am temporarily 'indisposed' it was very nice to get out for a walk! Every picture...
• The year 1965 was a watershed: she replaced the indisposed Marilyn Horne in a Carnegie Hall performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.
• In tertian fever, the morbific cause seeking the heart in the first instance, and hanging about the heart and lungs, renders the patient short-winded, disposed to sighing, and indisposed to exertion, because the vital principle is oppressed and the blood forced into the lungs and rendered thick. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
• Her father was indisposed to second Sir Willoughby's opinions even when sharing them.
• The sad fact for all you ingrates is that seh is indisposed doing the power-suited corporate thing today and I've got time on my hands.
• Here, let me just wake him up… he's mildly indisposed right now, can I take a message?