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[ UK /ˌɪndɪspˈə‍ʊzd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
    clearly indisposed to grant their request
    antipathetic to new ideas
    loath to go on such short notice
    averse to taking risks
  2. somewhat ill or prone to illness
    feeling poorly
    is unwell and can't come to work
    feeling a bit indisposed today
    my poor ailing grandmother
    a sickly child
    you look a little peaked

How To Use indisposed In A Sentence

  • If he come to see me" (as it has always been reckoned a piece of neighbourly kindness to visit the sick) "he speaks vanity; that is, he pretends friendship, and that his errand is to mourn with me and to comfort me; he tells me he is very sorry to see me so much indisposed, and wishes me my health; but it is all flattery and falsehood. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • She's indisposed... A member of the family... No... No... No! MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
  • Ms. Bustamante is... indisposed and asked that I come here to make arrangements for Alice's release. EVERY SECRET THING
  • I am indisposed with a headache.
  • The young men seem to be preferring some request which the elder ones are indisposed to grant.
  • He is indisposed to join the mobile medical team.
  • And the ladies did tend to be "indisposed" a great deal, poor things; it was the one weapon that the weak ones had in dealing with their mates- The Elvenbane
  • I cried all the way home; and then sat down so/dowie/by the fire, indisposed to speak to any son or daughter of Adam. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • In tertian fever, the morbific cause seeking the heart in the first instance, and hanging about the heart and lungs, renders the patient short-winded, disposed to sighing, and indisposed to exertion, because the vital principle is oppressed and the blood forced into the lungs and rendered thick. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
  • With any luck, the Emperor would be "indisposed" today after his bout with the storm, and with further luck, the mage-storm would send his mental and physical state plummeting again. Storm Breaking
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