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Meanings of disinclination in English

Portuguese
aversão
Catalan
indisposició

A certain degree of unwillingness.

aversão
Portuguese
aversão

That toward which you are inclined to feel dislike.

aversão
Usage of disinclination in English
1
Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination.
Girl, Interrupted
2
To natural brusqueness is added an evident disinclination to discuss the business.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
3
Never in my life have I faced a job with greater disinclination.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
4
LL's disinclination for introspection may have something to do with his age.
The Guardian
5
This would seem to be a natural disinclination, so prevalent is it.
Our Gift
6
He patiently, even in the face of positive disinclination, maintained his duties.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
7
At the entrance of the altar-house he paused, showing disinclination to enter.
Prisoners of Chance / The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen,...
8
I notice in you a chronic disinclination to take me seriously, Louis.
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
9
Such a disinclination to call a spade a spade must mean something.
The new yorker
10
But the boy had a disinclination to go where he was sent.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
11
Still, she overcame her disinclination to enter the house because of that.
The Debtor: A Novel
12
She, at all events, showed no disinclination to chat with her neighbours.
A Maid of the Silver Sea
13
Our bearers, however, had for some time shown a disinclination to proceed.
In the Wilds of Africa
14
The disinclination of the Austrians to the reforms of Joseph II.
Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4
15
But it does point to a disinclination by retirement-age people to hold mortgages.
Reuters
16
The reason for this general disinclination is not difficult of discovery.
Cosmic Consciousness / The Man-God Whom We Await
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Disinclination through the time
Disinclination across language varieties
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