ill-disposed
English
Adjective
ill-disposed (comparative more ill-disposed, superlative most ill-disposed)
- Not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic.
- 2009, Patrick Malcolmson, Richard Myers, The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada, University of Toronto Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 61:
- And the Maritime colonies were similarly ill-disposed toward a legislative union.
- 2011, Garrett G. Fagan, The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games, Cambridge University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 252:
- The crowd may generally have been ill-disposed toward arena performers, but that could change depending on what was going on at any given time.
- 2011, Tony MacLachlan, We Spared Not the Capital of America: War Between Britain and the United States 1812-15, AuthorHouse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 241:
- As a man of Eastern Tennessee, he also felt ill-disposed to co-operate with the men from the west.
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