Meanings of real disposition in English

He is righteous in speech but his real disposition is sinful.

Fortunately a discovery was made in time of Manon's real disposition.

They have little studied his real disposition, who impute his occasional austerity of manner to misanthropy at heart.

When once his victim was in his toils, Mr. Hurdlestone did not attempt to conceal from her his real disposition.

The real disposition of Waverley, on the other hand, notwithstanding his dreams of tented fields and military honour, seemed exclusively domestic.

Not content to gather riches by common roguery, he sought out the basest instrumentalities as more congenial to his real disposition.

He had seen du Croisier on his knees to the aristocracy, and of the man's real disposition he was entirely ignorant.

In some of the republics there is a real disposition to deal with us; in others there is a preference for Europe.

Here I took lodgings, and spent about a week, taking every opportunity to converse with Eliza, striving to discover her real disposition towards me.

You don't know much about her or her real disposition, I suppose, and there's no guessing how a child like that will turn out.

In these days of political persecution, the Bonapartists had everywhere hidden themselves in obscure places, or concealed their real disposition beneath the mask of Bourbonism.

A completer knowledge of them would satisfy any one that he had as little real disposition to kill a king as to kill a mouse.

He has had several rehearsals with the orchestra, which he describes as "fabulous, with a very nice energy and a real disposition to work".

It is not so much that we are betrayed as misconstrued; our opinions are misinterpreted from ignorance of our real dispositions.

When the American right was found to be fully engaged with Lord Cornwallis, Knyphausen made real dispositions for crossing the river.

Public men, above all, are surrounded with so many temptations and difficulties that some doubt must almost always hang over their real dispositions and intentions.