ill-disposed

comparative more ill-disposed · superlative most ill-disposed

1. Not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic.

   And the Maritime colonies were similarly ill-disposed toward a legislative union.

   2009, Patrick Malcolmson, Richard Myers, The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada, University of Toronto Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 61

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   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, 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

   As a man of Eastern Tennessee, he also felt ill-disposed to co-operate with the men from the west.

   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