predisposed
IPA: pridɪspˈoʊzd
adjective
- Inclined.
- Made susceptible to.
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Examples of "predisposed" in Sentences
- The breed is also predisposed to deafness.
- In humans, the vast majority of the population is predisposed.
- It is inherently predisposed to the detriment of that individual.
- It also helps knowing the mistakes that the nominators are predisposed to make.
- GM's sales chief Mark LaNeve said the auto maker is "predisposed" toward rolling out the program nationwide in the future.
- Biologists now generally prefer to say that a fertilized egg is "predisposed" to maleness or femaleness, instead of "determined."
- Jimbo — who was "predisposed" to agree with Horowitz — thinks the reason the crowd didn't disrupt him was that he was too dull and uninspiring.
- So if he did something, yeah, I'm kind of predisposed to that, and that's the way that most people think, and it's not that it's a wrong way to think.
- KARA: Well, yes, but I think they're both kind of predisposed to psychosis, and that he brought it out of her as much as she made him hide his from his wife.
- But I don't see how anyone can see a racist message in the Hillary ad without being predisposed in other words... prejudiced... to see racism in absolutely everything.
- In my article, I reported that a number of prominent writers on AIDS have claimed that promiscuity may have "predisposed" certain men to the illness and may have "amplified" its incidence.
- How many of those people already predisposed in other words, with the motive to molest or otherwise harm young children on the internet are going to look at a PSA and think “Gosh, I’ve been horribly wrong all these years?”
- I was "predisposed," as a physician says of a case where the infection is certain, hence I offer no apology whatever for the assertion that this chapter is scientifically correct in the rules laid down for the breeding to attain desirable shades and markings.