indispose
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All his jealousy is actively alive to the smallest shade of fault, although his feelings so much indispose him to see any blemish.
From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper
Patience seems to be prudence, in this case; to indispose them, would do no good, and might do harm.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
We indispose the French government, and they will retract their offer of the treaty of commerce.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Years and infirmities may indispose him to enter on a mighty war; but he thinks more of his dynasty than of himself, his ambition being to found a reigning house.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
The cause in which this document was written will indispose the candid reader to any criticism of its somewhat exuberant language.
From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Charles Sumner
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
Watts so impressed Bernstein that the conductor chose him to replace an indisposed Glenn Gould and play the Liszt concerto twice at Philharmonic Hall a few weeks later.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
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
At times he even sat upon the Iron Throne to dis-pense king's justice, when the king was absent, or sick, or otherwise indisposed.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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
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 Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
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
Ah! 'twas a lovely world!—no more I met that indisposing bore, The unseraphic cynogogue— The man who's proud to love a dog.
From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce
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
