disposed
adjective
having a certain inclination or disposition; inclined (usually followed by to or an infinitive).
half-disposed
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a word derived from
disposed.
Example Sentences
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Harry sat by the bed half-disposed to tell of Screwby’s attack, but he refrained.
From A Little World by George Manville Fenn
"I'll let her see… I'll make her understand," she repeated angrily; and for a moment she was half-disposed to drive to the station and take the first train back.
From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
The sympathy moved me, and I felt half-disposed to tear up my "pass" and stay with them to see it through.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney
I have evaded all his questions, and he is more than half-disposed to believe in necromancy.
From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper
"I am Alderman Van Beverout," muttered the object of this new attack, between his teeth, though apparently but half-disposed to notice one who set so little bounds to his discourse.
From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper
