half-inclined
- a word derived from inclined.
Example Sentences
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Richard looked at him questioningly, half-inclined to be angry.
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Kennedy, Sara Beaumont
You’re still more than half-inclined to suspect us boys of causing the loss of the papers you had hidden in the closet.
From The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
I was musing on the patriarchal character of such a picture, half-inclined towards the “one-man power”—if not in the shape of a slaveholder, yet something after the style of Rapp and his “social economists.”
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne
"A likely story!" he exclaimed; and the very fact that he was more than half-inclined to believe her, made him speak more roughly than he would otherwise have done.
From Who? by Kent, Elizabeth
"Master Robin," said the captain, looking earnestly in his countenance, and half-inclined to smile at his enthusiasm—"Master Robin, that's not the court fashion."
From The Buccaneer A Tale by Hall, S. C., Mrs.
