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disinclination

[dis-in-kluh-ney-shuhn, dis-in-] / dɪsˌɪn kləˈneɪ ʃən, ˌdɪs ɪn- /


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His posture toward Ukraine weekly demonstrates that disinclination.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

That can produce psychic numbing, the inability or disinclination to feel, which can reach the point of immobilization.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024

Mark Ronson has always been a mumbler, his soft, unobtrusive speaking voice a product of both his transatlantic upbringing and — notwithstanding the chart-topping pop songs he’s helped create — his general disinclination toward fame.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2023

His disinclination to push and pull at tempo or dynamics means that when moments of crisis arrive — as in the first-movement development of the D. 664 Sonata — they carry outsize force.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

He next put his trust in Louis’s disinclination to take an active part in the Government; but here again he was deceived.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.




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