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词汇 disinclined
释义 disinclined
adjective
uk /ˌdɪs.ɪŋˈklaɪnd/ us /ˌdɪs.ɪŋˈklaɪnd/
 be/feel disinclined to do something
to not want to do something: 不想做…,不愿意做…
I am/feel disinclined to offer him a job if he doesn't have a degree.如果他没有学位,我可不愿意给他一份工作。
Synonym
unwilling
Opposites
disposedformal
inclined
prepared
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not wanting to do something
unwillingShe was unwilling to hand over the money.
loathI was loath to spend all the money at once.
balkThe MP balked at a proposal to raise council tax.
reluctantI was reluctant to leave because I was having such a good time.
disinclinedI am disinclined to take on the extra work without more pay.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unwilling and reluctant
arsed
balk
baulk
be blowed if...idiom
be in no mood for something/to do somethingidiom
begrudge
deign
disinclination
disobliging
drag your heels/feetidiom
grudge
indisposed
indisposition
jib
rather you than meidiom
reluctance
reluctant
reluctantly
shagged
wouldn't

Examples of disinclined


disinclined
Music teachers were disinclined to actualise the musical minds of their pupils or to create a climate of mutuality in which these might grow.
Most shareholders were disinclined to sell, preferring to wait and see what news would eventually come from the various estates.
Most of these tenants are disinclined to move.
Where clinicians are disinclined to speak up, errors are more likely to occur.
Politicians may thus be disinclined to encourage a more market-oriented system of resource allocation over which they have less control and that undermines political particularism.
Such persons are disinclined to vote for a minority candidate or even for a white who expresses support for legitimate minority interests.
At the moment, we are disinclined to accept the possibility that it is bilingualism per se that affects the bilinguals' gesture rate.
If tort compensation schemes nonetheless under write them, utilitarians should be disinclined to regard such schemes as manifesting corrective justice.
So, when we confront a patient or surrogate decisionmaker who is disinclined to accept the state-of-the-art pain and symptom management techniques, it can give us pause.
Whereas when infants focus intently on a novel event, and are either unable or disinclined to look away, sharing that focus, while soothing, may be more appropriate.
A lower resting metabolic rate would be an asset for a predator that is unable, or disinclined, to emigrate, enabling it to endure longer intervals between meals.
Habeck stresses, rightly in my view, that we must take very seriously their religious motivation and their own statements of it, something secular scholars may be disinclined to do.
Where is the money supposed to come from if we are disinclined to cut back other similar programmes under the same heading?
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Some firms are disinclined to accept overseas students.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
If they were shown to be disinclined to seek such advice, that would be a problem which we should examine and try to resolve.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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