How to Use disinclination in a Sentence

disinclination

noun

• Many, but the most common was a disinclination to eat meat.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• This all goes back to the Heat’s disinclination to pay into the luxury tax.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2022
• Even on his first day, the president showed a disinclination to stick to his talking points.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
• Erik Spoelstra has shown almost a disinclination to play big, which also has been the increasing trend around the league.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2022
• And with little wall space to hang show posters and a certain disinclination to bring her work home, Ms. Osnes went with show magnets instead.
  — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
• Ailes, knowing Trump’s disinclination to take advice, or even listen to it, turned him down.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2018
• Its lineup of safety equipment and extra features is as strong as its disinclination to stop for gas.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022
• This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability.
  — Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
• If, faced with half-empty offices, such service workers do not come back for want of custom, that will add to the commuters’ disinclination to return.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• Rather, the outcome of the vote was more a reflection of the volunteers' disinclination to follow the orders of a regular Texian Army man over those from one of their own.
  — Robert Kolarik, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2018
• Their disinclination to do that is admirable in the too-much-information, 21st-century pop world.
  — Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine, 10 July 2017
• Bill Elder, a tall skinny boy with big ears and acne, seemed to have a disinclination to shower, or wear deodorant when his underarm hair had begun to grow and his armpits to smell like a nervous adult's.
  — Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
• Russia’s clear disinclination to respond to last week’s U.S. military strike in Syria shows Putin wants to avoid a direct military clash.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Both have made clear their disinclination to vote for more witness testimony.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2020
• Over the decades, no single feature of his artistic policy has caused more grievance than this disinclination to bring in Balanchine alumni.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
• Walmart's disinclination to follow in the footsteps of competitors Amazon and Target, each of which pay a minimum of $15 an hour, drew a strong rebuke from labor activists.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2021
• Kapler’s propensity to play matchups earlier than most managers would and his disinclination toward letting starters go through a lineup a third time has resulted in him wearing out the path between the dugout and the pitcher’s mound.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Through a combination of distraction and disinclination to bend to the U.K’s whims, currently there is no willingness to do that, diplomats from several EU countries said.
  — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2020
• The drama in Hong Kong is only the latest example of Mr. Trump’s disinclination to let human rights and democracy complicate his diplomacy.
  — Michael Crowley, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Fagen — the sole surviving member of Steely Dan after Walter Becker’s death — also rebuffed the notion that a disinclination toward putting female singer-songwriters on the bill had anything to do with it.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022
• While many battles for female independence have since been fought and (largely) won, Markle shows a similar disinclination to bow to patriarchal norms.
  — Judith Vonberg, CNN, 1 May 2018
• This pest takes advantage of a rosarian’s natural disinclination to sacrifice new growth and buds.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
• The problem, of course, is a widespread disinclination to serve that good, whether it is fueled by selfishness and ignorance or the sense that one’s contributions to the commonweal have not felt adequately reciprocal.
  — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• This time, however, this process is occurring in a context unsettled by the president’s stated disinclination to accept the final results.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
• Still, Murray’s disinclination to identify as a lesbian rested partly on a misprision of what lesbianism means.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• Yet my disinclination had nothing to do with whatever ambiently satirical impulses were at work in the series.
  — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
• Despite Parton publicly asking to be removed from contention, with voting already underway, so far the Hall hasn’t made any public move to disqualify her, and her disinclination to receive the award doesn’t automatically take her out of the running.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022
• But American women weren’t interested, and the midi debacle left retailers with unsold stock and a lingering disinclination to take risks.
  — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
• The inevitable byproducts of such demoralization are a receptivity to foreign ideas and a disinclination toward self-defense.
  — vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Goucher College political scientist Nina Kasniunas said Jealous’ disinclination to enter the mayor’s race could be a sign of a how impossible the job seems.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2019

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