How to Use disinclined in a Sentence
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And Moos might be disinclined to pull the plug on Riley.
—OregonLive.com, 16 Oct. 2017
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The campaign for 2024 was a one-on-one race, and the I.O.C. seemed disinclined to declare a loser.
—Andrew Keh, New York Times, 9 June 2017
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Mary, Miller’s first girlfriend and his wife of eleven years, seems to have been disinclined to forgive.
—Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
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Why are modern fathers so quick to anger, and so disinclined to talk about it?
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 June 2022
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The judge, who made extremely short work of the case, appeared disinclined to indulge the suit.
—Norman Eisen, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
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Those who have left this life behind seem disinclined to turn back.
—Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2017
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Mr. Zukofsky, as time went on, seemed disinclined to do those things.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 20 June 2017
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The justices at the hearing seemed disinclined to buy Liu’s counsel’s claims, too.
—Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2020
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Jayne, whose politics on this point were the same as mine, was disinclined to man the barricades, so to speak.
—Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
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For its part, Intel may have felt disinclined to cross any more swords with the government.
—Polly Sprenger, WIRED, 25 Jan. 1999
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For now, the Israelis are focused on the immediate threat and are disinclined to widen the conflict.
—Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2023
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Some people are disinclined to see past their own risk horizons.
—Adam Rogers, Wired, 28 Dec. 2020
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But that needn’t be church (in my irrelevant opinion) for one disinclined and on the cusp of adulthood.
—Philip Galanes, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
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TVs are a challenge for Amazon, as consumers might be disinclined to buy a TV sight unseen.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
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But the breast patients came anyway, referred by male surgeons disinclined to take them on.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 3 July 2023
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These days, even the nosiest monitors are disinclined to travel.
—The Economist, 16 May 2020
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At the town hall, Iger put his foot down on the matter, saying Disney is disinclined to acquiesce to this request.
—Yohana Desta, HWD, 16 May 2017
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Because big investments are hard to reverse, firms are disinclined to press ahead with them.
—The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
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Anecdotes suggest that many hunters may have been disinclined to buck-hunt only after the statewide gun season.
—Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 12 July 2019
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Espionage and intelligence are so conducive to mistrust that the people who make the best use of them tend to be the most equable and disinclined to suspicion.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
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For those disinclined to cold weather, the asymmetric windows, along with warm wood paneling, make for a rather scenic (and cozy) setup as well.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
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The Supreme Court has seemed disinclined to distinguish life online from the physical world because the two modes are so deeply intertwined by now.
—Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2019
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And some Republicans indeed seem disinclined to fight to protect the low effective tax rates of those megafirms.
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
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Installing one means pulling an aircraft out of rotation, which airlines are disinclined to go.
—Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2016
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For now both sides seem disinclined to continue shooting, but this incident could be the start of a new cold war between Washington and Tehran.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2020
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The public and the FCC are disinclined to accept higher prices in rural areas (which often have lower incomes).
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2018
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The old governor tells the new one to take a weekly dinner with Jamie to retain a good relationship, but the new governor is disinclined.
—Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Sep. 2017
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But then, bohemianism is first and foremost a state of mind—that of people who are disinclined to follow rules and formulas, and who value the notion of a life well lived.
—Gregory Cerio, ELLE Decor, 3 Aug. 2016
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But then, bohemianism is first and foremost a state of mind—that of people who are disinclined to follow rules and formulas, and who value the notion of a life well lived.
—Gregory Cerio, ELLE Decor, 3 Aug. 2016
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Increasingly, our leaders seem disinclined to help us fulfill that mission — to feed the hungry, care for the sick and comfort those wounded by life.
—Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2017
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