disincline

Example Sentences

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Walrath rejected the argument that allowing an insider trading lawsuit would disincline creditors from negotiating Chapter 11 plans.

From BusinessWeek • Sep. 14, 2011

“Service organizational cultures disincline the Pentagon to field capabilities for irregular warfare that compete with established warfighting programs,” Lamb said.

From Washington Post

It is natural that the public should disincline to assume any further burden to enrich the timber owner.

From Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by Allen, Edward Tyson

This affair did not let him sleep sometimes, still it did not disincline him from working at that which he had begun already.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah

The will must incline to what it now disinclines, and disincline to what it now inclines.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)