disinclination's Usage Examples:

Some fishes exhibit a marked disinclination to breed, which may be due to hormone treatments and inbreeding.

Commodore Chauncey showed a preference for relying on his long guns, and a disinclination to come to close quarters.

The unusually outspoken and pointed expression, however, of his disinclination to submit to Muscovite duplicity or to "pin-pricks" or "unmannerliness" from France was criticized on the score of discretion by a wider circle than that of his political adversaries.

You can overcome all disinclination for work if you consider it as dedicated to God.

On the return of the Unionists to power in 1895 he resumed the leadership of the House, but not at first with the success expected of him, his management of the abortive education proposals of '96 being thought, even by his own supporters, to show a disinclination for the continuous drudgery of parliamentary management under modern conditions.

The development of the country was, however, slow, due in part to the disinclination of the Reichstag to vote supplies sufficient for the building of railways to the fertile lake regions.

Whig politicians out of favor also showed no disinclination to join them.

High pier dues, moreover, contributed to the decline of the traffic, and attempts to overcome the disinclination of passengers to use the river (at any rate in winter) show a record of failure.

There was no military spirit in a population unused to arms, nor any disinclination to be relieved from an arbitrary and persecuting rule.

One of the purposes of this restrictive provision was that of creating a national merchant marine, but the disinclination of Brazilians for maritime pursuits has been a serious obstacle to its realization.

Sir Robin ably and disarmingly referred to his own disinclination to be a public speaker.

Synonyms:

unwillingness, slothfulness, hesitancy, reluctance, indisposition, hesitation, involuntariness, sloth,

Antonyms:

Anglophilia, confidence, wellness, venial sin, willingness,