How to Use disinclination in a Sentence

disinclination

noun
  • Even on his first day, the president showed a disinclination to stick to his talking points.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • This all goes back to the Heat’s disinclination to pay into the luxury tax.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Its lineup of safety equipment and extra features is as strong as its disinclination to stop for gas.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Horowitz’s disinclination to pay his bills has inspired complaints over the years, some on legal stationery.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Both have made clear their disinclination to vote for more witness testimony.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Erik Spoelstra has shown almost a disinclination to play big, which also has been the increasing trend around the league.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2022
  • The impression that these are just people in wigs is only bolstered by their disinclination to reflect on their choices.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • If, faced with half-empty offices, such service workers do not come back for want of custom, that will add to the commuters’ disinclination to return.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • Their disinclination to do that is admirable in the too-much-information, 21st-century pop world.
    — Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine, 10 July 2017
  • This pest takes advantage of a rosarian’s natural disinclination to sacrifice new growth and buds.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • Over the decades, no single feature of his artistic policy has caused more grievance than this disinclination to bring in Balanchine alumni.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Members praise – and sometimes complain about – his willingness to listen and his disinclination toward conflict.
    — Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Yet my disinclination had nothing to do with whatever ambiently satirical impulses were at work in the series.
    — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
  • There seems to be a disinclination on the part of most Republican senators to oppose the president's nominees.
    — Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 4 Feb. 2025
  • While many battles for female independence have since been fought and (largely) won, Markle shows a similar disinclination to bow to patriarchal norms.
    — Judith Vonberg, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • Bill Elder, a tall skinny boy with big ears and acne, seemed to have a disinclination to shower, or wear deodorant when his underarm hair had begun to grow and his armpits to smell like a nervous adult's.
    — Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
  • The same disinclination would normally apply.
    — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Still, Murray’s disinclination to identify as a lesbian rested partly on a misprision of what lesbianism means.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Durant’s disinclination to play for the Warriors doesn’t necessarily prohibit them from trading for him.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • This time, however, this process is occurring in a context unsettled by the president’s stated disinclination to accept the final results.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Rather, the outcome of the vote was more a reflection of the volunteers' disinclination to follow the orders of a regular Texian Army man over those from one of their own.
    — Robert Kolarik, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Kapler’s propensity to play matchups earlier than most managers would and his disinclination toward letting starters go through a lineup a third time has resulted in him wearing out the path between the dugout and the pitcher’s mound.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Cui said that disinclination is partly because high existing household savings would necessitate a cash infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars to have a notable effect.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The inevitable byproducts of such demoralization are a receptivity to foreign ideas and a disinclination toward self-defense.
    — vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • But American women weren’t interested, and the midi debacle left retailers with unsold stock and a lingering disinclination to take risks.
    — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
  • The problem, of course, is a widespread disinclination to serve that good, whether it is fueled by selfishness and ignorance or the sense that one’s contributions to the commonweal have not felt adequately reciprocal.
    — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Walmart's disinclination to follow in the footsteps of competitors Amazon and Target, each of which pay a minimum of $15 an hour, drew a strong rebuke from labor activists.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2021
  • In a sense, that’s a deflection of the personal scrutiny involved in pop stardom — a move in keeping with Bryan’s general disinclination to fulfill the rituals of celebrity on any platform beyond his own.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • Culturally, the word is synonymous with ugly, not just for the ways lesbians defy traditional gender roles in the popular imagination but for their disinclination toward and unavailability to men.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Fagen — the sole surviving member of Steely Dan after Walter Becker’s death — also rebuffed the notion that a disinclination toward putting female singer-songwriters on the bill had anything to do with it.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022

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