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favorably disposed
adjective as in sympathetic
Example Sentences
She says her time in Alabama, where she was a member of the governor’s COVID-19 committee, served her well: “I had to convince a lot of people who were not favorably disposed to Dr. Fauci.”
Steven Spielberg's period piece loosely inspired by his Jewish family, "The Fabelmans," won the Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award — which signposts it to get a Best Picture Oscar nomination, if not win — so viewers seem favorably disposed to it.
Other attendees have been more favorably disposed than I am to Michel Hazanavicius’s zombie comedy “Final Cut,” which opened the festival on Tuesday and confirms that some things, including humor, can’t be translated.
If Congress enacts legislation to regulate conscientious objector status for personal nullification of any law in the land, the excesses of state statutes might be reined in faster than possible, even by a favorably disposed judiciary.
The defense will be looking for candidates who are politically conservative and favorably disposed toward law enforcement, while the prosecution may prefer young, highly educated people with liberal leanings.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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