indispose

He bowed—"Pardon me, Madam—I was leetel indispose, dat ish true!"

From Pamela, Volume II by Samuel Richardson

We are now," returned the other, "quartered among friends, to whom we ought to be not only punctual but liberal, lest we indispose them to the service.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West

May not some persons even entertain the apprehension, that it will indispose them to such pursuits?

From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by Eighth Earl of Elgin James

In fact, the anathema remained inefficacious within and without.313 In vain did the pope employ the Jesuits to raise or indispose the European courts against the Venetians.

From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou

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

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

Austin will transfer authority to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks while he is indisposed, the Pentagon said.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

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

Many of the soldiers from Camp Funston had a rough boat ride overseas and are still feeling indisposed with flu symptoms.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

The theological romanticism of Lacordaire and of Montalembert was not much more appreciated by them, the dogmatic ignorance and the very weak reasoning powers of this school indisposing them against it.

From Recollections of My Youth by Ernest Renan

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

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

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