indispose

"What circumstances can possibly indispose you to give your law business to Mr. Darch?"

From Armadale by Wilkie Collins

Must not the torrent of invective and abuse, almost universally poured upon this people, tend to disaffect and indispose them to civil association! 

From A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies by John Hoyland

This reflection tended to repress the inclination he would otherwise have felt for cultivating her society, but it did not indispose him to benefit her in a certain way.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

I haven't signed it, as my unmeaning name would perhaps indispose the fellow to see much good in it.

From Born in Exile by George Gissing

Still I do believe that time and history, and national pride, and Swiss morgue, have brought about a state of feeling that would indispose them to bow down to a Swiss sovereign.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

When she arrives at their imposing Vermont mansion to go through Verity’s notes, Lowen discovers that Verity’s a vegetable: completely physically and mentally indisposed after a car accident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Entertaining down to the last minute, the Bastille Opera finally opened its season with a sad-faced functionary who stepped in front of the curtain to tell us that the “Simone Boccanegra” baritone was indisposed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

The Pittsburgh Steelers went into Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders with an indisposed defense and left with the squad in worse shape, but it appears that there’s hope.

From Fox News ● Sep. 21, 2021

As Tenet’s villain, Olivier’s heir should be given free rein to bungee jump off the confines of a respectable performance, yet his director is otherwise indisposed and can’t be bothered.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2020

Within a year she was dismissing servants, ordering about his household knights, even speaking for his lordship when he was indisposed.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

For the most part the influence of the bath is limited to abating their severity, shortening their duration, and indisposing to their return.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West

She says she loves to see me gay and cheerful, as is natural at my age, but that levity quite upsets and disorders the mind, indisposing it for serious thoughts.

From Stepping Heavenward by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

Four motives appear to me to have been puissant in indisposing Englishmen to the Northerners.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various

Wherefore we should never suffer them to be dissolved into levity, or disordered into a wanton frame, indisposing us for religious thoughts and actions. 

From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Isaac Barrow

Ah me, that a man be self-subsistent, original, true, or what we call it, is surely the farthest in the world from indisposing him to reverence and believe other men's truth!

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle