predisposed

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Predisposed to side with the underdog against a Latin American military junta and against U.S. military intervention, many of the correspondents wrote glowing accounts of their fleeting interviews with the rebels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Predisposed though we certainly were to do every justice to the original strains of Mr Sheldon, he will forgive us when we own that the ancient ballads were the primary objects of our quest.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

Predisposed to believe a story of this kind, he could not reason as he might have done if fear of Barfoot had never entered his thoughts.

From The Odd Women by Gissing, George

Predisposed to melancholy, and inheriting a not very strong mind from her father, Ophelia was a lady who needed cheering up, if ever poor lady did.

From A Midnight Fantasy by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

The sunshine-coloured fists Beyond his dimpling wrists Were never closed For saving or for sparing— For only deeds of daring Predisposed.

From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Swinburne, Algernon Charles