disinclination
Example Sentences
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His posture toward Ukraine weekly demonstrates that disinclination.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
That can produce psychic numbing, the inability or disinclination to feel, which can reach the point of immobilization.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024
In a sense, that’s a deflection of the personal scrutiny involved in pop stardom — a move in keeping with Bryan’s general disinclination to fulfill the rituals of celebrity on any platform beyond his own.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024
That strict sense of propriety, as well as a disinclination to privilege the individual above the collective, that made him reluctant to discuss his intimate habits and feelings.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022
The surroundings which were to inspire him had, on the contrary, merely provoked a disinclination to do any work whatever.
From The Four Corners of the World by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
Vocabulary lists containing disinclination
Novel Study: Lord of the Flies, Chapters 1–4
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George Washington's First Inaugural Address
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Stories of Ourselves
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