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Disinclined


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Disincline

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Findings demonstrated that feelings of self-confidence, an easy-going disposition, a disinclination to use avoidance coping, and the availability of family support operate jointly to protect individuals from negative psychological consequences of life stress.
  • (2) It will take a significant deterioration in the economic picture for me to be disinclined to move ahead.” #BlackLivesMatter and so should the high unemployment rate Read more “Any Fed tightening cycle when it does occur is likely to be very modest.
  • (3) I don’t think that the only way you can have a good and constructive relationship with China is by behaving in that sort of craven way.” Patten, who is now chancellor of the University of Oxford, said Britain’s “increasing disinclination” to inject principles into its foreign policy was enabling the ever-more repressive and aggressive policies coming out of Beijing.
  • (4) High scale scores describe fearful, emotionally labile individuals who profess to be more sensitive than others and unable or disinclined to persist in the face of difficulty.
  • (5) Regrettably, no doubt, for those who are keener on the purification of public discourse, online censors seem disinclined to regulate with any consistency.
  • (6) Disinclination among the parents was the main reason for absenteeism and could be related to ignorance about the clinic.
  • (7) We have not had the sort of bad experience that they had in parts of Germany or in eastern Europe with intelligence services and, for that reason, I think people are disinclined to believe that those who have those responsibilities are misusing them."
  • (8) The town was disinclined to cooperate with the border patrol because residents felt they were harassing them.
  • (9) Hayden, of course, became a very effective governor general, disinclined to interfere in the affairs of parliament.
  • (10) EH patients, particularly those experiencing emotional distress, appear to have patterns of self-presentation that could present an obstacle to effective communication with their physicians, and this difficulty may be amplified by physicians' disinclination to probe for emotional difficulty.
  • (11) James Acaster Pleasance Courtyard , 6-28 August You may be disinclined to gamble at the fringe, and look instead for a home banker.
  • (12) Inner-city patients are, increasingly, black and Hispanic patients, and these patients are more likely to be underinsured or uninsured, to be functionally illiterate in English, to be disinclined to seek health care, and to be less capable of following a prescribed regimen than the populace as a whole.
  • (13) In seeking to define what he calls "postliberalism" , Goodhart attacks both the economic liberalism of the 80s and New Labour's disinclination to reverse it.
  • (14) A number of those around the table shared their own personal stories of the difficulties they had faced themselves over a loved one's disinclination to eat or preference for sweet foods of no nutritional value.
  • (15) The conversation left her disinclined to bother complaining when the crew started using the prominence of her nipples through her jumper to guess the temperature outside, assuming that would be deemed "banter" too.
  • (16) Photograph: PR Bradbury, a lecturer in young people and sport at Loughborough University, interviewed dozens of current and former players for his report and found that black footballers are especially disinclined to think of coaching as a potential option for when their career winds down.
  • (17) The public will be a little weary, I think, of being taken to the ballot box twice in 12 months.” But the attorney general said he was “disinclined” to pair the same-sex marriage vote with a referendum on recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution, which he said had an “emotional significance” for society.
  • (18) I did.” Vernon said that she was now utterly disinclined to write with honesty about her life experiences and admitted it took therapy to help her get over it.
  • (19) If Cameron is disinclined to stir this particular hornets' nest (was his own phone ever hacked, incidentally?)
  • (20) Johnson, backed by testimony from her family at trial, said she was at home with her mother and three children, disinclined to go out on Halloween.

Inclined


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Incline
  • (p. p. & a.) Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue.
  • (p. p. & a.) Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane.
  • (p. p. & a.) Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
  • (2) Such early specialization produced men with orthopedic inclinations.
  • (3) The conclusion is that the inclined method can be used and interpreted by the clinician in the same way as the classic Westergren method.
  • (4) The poll – which sets the stage for a tense and dramatic run to referendum day – suggests that, among the undecideds, more are inclined to vote Remain than Leave.
  • (5) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
  • (6) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
  • (7) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
  • (8) This ranged from heads inclined at a slight angle to the tail through to complete flexure.
  • (9) A second set of experiments which involved the injection of E2 into senescent male as well as female rats indicated that there were no sex differences in improvements in inclined screen performance, and that once the E2 injections were discontinued, performance returned to preadministration levels.
  • (10) The base orientations are characterized by a substantial inclination and propellor twist.
  • (11) The survey also found that Osborne's currency union veto made 30% more likely to vote no with only 13% more inclined to vote yes.
  • (12) Loss of the righting response was not associated with any gross reduction in skeletal muscle tone (inclined screen and wire grip tests) and it was proposed that the animals were not anaesthetized but instead could be placed on their backs because flurazepam had enhanced the cataleptic effect of THC.
  • (13) The paper presents a quantitative study of the trajectories of rat granulocytes (PMNs) migrating on a glass surface inclined at various angles, i.e.
  • (14) The obliquity of the joint line was measured in positive degrees (medial inclination) and negative degrees (lateral inclination).
  • (15) In a second experiment schizophrenics were significantly different from the depressives in showing less inclination to select a metaphorical meaning to an ambiguous adjective in a sentence.
  • (16) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
  • (17) For his part, the Russian president will be aware of the economic damage that even limited sanctions are doing and so be inclined to put quiet pressure on the rebels in the Ukraine to co-operate with the international investigation at the crash site.
  • (18) Why would disaffected Liberals be inclined to give their protest votes to a Labour party that has abused them at every turn since last May?
  • (19) Over the next five weeks the horses were trained at near maximal speeds (that is, up to 14.5 m s-1) with no incline of the treadmill.
  • (20) The influence of the parameters' inclination and curving of condylar guidance, intercondylar distance, Bennett angle, distance of the plate, and position of the recording pencil are studied.