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disinclination

[dis-in-kluh-ney-shuhn, dis-in-] / dɪsˌɪn kləˈneɪ ʃən, ˌdɪs ɪn- /


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His posture toward Ukraine weekly demonstrates that disinclination.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Cui said that disinclination is partly because high existing household savings would necessitate a cash infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars to make a notable impact.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

Inconsistent as "Picard" could be, it handles its hero's disillusionment with Starfleet's disinclination to take responsibility for massive moral failings, and his own, quite capably.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2023

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

I was accepted with disinclination, and endured with absolute dislike, and the consciousness of this has sometimes well-nigh driven me desperate.

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)




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