disincline
to make or be averse or unwilling: Your rudeness disinclines me to grant your request.
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How to use disincline in a sentence
A man may love oysters, but too many oysters will disincline him toward that particular diet.
Revolution and Other Essays | Jack LondonAnd shall selfish feeling disincline me to such duties as these?
Self-control | Mary BruntonThe water was so warm as at first to disincline one to enter it, but by degrees the sensation became far from unpleasant.
The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland: | Thomas W. SillowayAt the same time he denounced the authors, so as to disincline the reader to look into their pages for the D'Israelian plagiaries.
Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) | George Jacob HolyoakeThe efforts which a bad reader has to make, both disincline him to the task of reading, and hinder his appreciation of truth.
Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation | An American Citizen
British Dictionary definitions for disincline
/ (ˌdɪsɪnˈklaɪn) /
to make or be unwilling, reluctant, or averse
Derived forms of disincline
- disinclination (ˌdɪsɪnklɪˈneɪʃən), noun
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