An apology, founded upon a slight indisposition, was alleged as an excuse for the absence of Miss Ashton, whose seat appeared unoccupied.
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Indisposition
//ɪnˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən//
Synonyms for "indisposition" (129 found)
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indisposednessindocilityinfectious diseaseinfirmityintractablenesslack of enthusiasmlack of zealmaladymalaisemorbiditymorbusmuscular diseasemutinousnessneurological diseasenolitionnutritional diseaseobstinacyoccupational diseaseoppositionorganic disease
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pandemic diseasepathological conditionpathologyperfunctorinesspipplant diseaseprotozoan diseasepsychosomatic diseaserecalcitrancerecalcitrancyrefractorinessrefusalrenitencerenitencyrepugnanceresistancerespiratory diseaserockinesssecondary diseaseseedinesssickishnesssicknesssignsignsslownessstubbornnesssulksulkinesssulkssullennesssymptomsymptomatologysymptomologysymptomssyndromethe pipunenthusiasmunwillingnessurogenital diseasevirus diseasewasting diseaseworm disease
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11 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- неразположение noun (mild illness)
Catalan
1 entries- indisposició noun (mild illness)
French
1 entries- indisposition noun (mild illness)
German
1 entries- Unpässlichkeit noun (mild illness)
Greek
1 entries- αδιαθεσία noun (mild illness)
Hungarian
1 entries- gyengélkedés noun (mild illness)
Irish
1 entries- meath-thinneas noun (mild illness)
Italian
1 entries- indisposizione noun (mild illness)
Portuguese
1 entries- indisposição noun (mild illness)
Spanish
2 entries- achaque noun (mild illness)
- indisposición noun (mild illness)
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I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.
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She began not to understand a word they said, and was obliged to plead indisposition and excuse herself.
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During those three hellish days at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee was badly suffering from a severe case of diarrhea after having eaten too many cherries, an indisposition—given his ill-considered and ultimately amateurishly fatal decision for the Confederacy to attack from the front (and relatively below) on July 3, 1863—that cost his army a victory that day, an incredible mismaneuver and unstrategic folly that became, as it turned out, the turning-point of the entire war that led to the full and final defeat of the South.
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