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- Usage of indisposed - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The emerging use of “indisposed” to mean “busy” or “unavailable” seems to be an extension of the long-standing use of “indisposed” as a euphemism employed in cases where the truth would be either embarrassing (the person is in the bathroom, for instance) or socially offensive (the person simply doesn’t wish to see or talk to you)
- Indisposed used erroneously - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Here is something interesting I found this article on the increasing use of indisposed in the busy sense The concluding two sentences are: Rather than being used as a vague excuse, implying temporary illness, for not doing something or talking to someone, it’s now being used to mean simply “busy or unavailable ” Given a few more decades, this may become an accepted use of the word, but
- Looking for an expression that means Im at an event right now
"I'm indisposed" literally means, and even non-literally at least implies, that you're not feeling well I'd never ever use it to mean that I'm busy at an event
- meaning - What does Our climate is indisposed to favour us even this . . .
Please help me to understand the meaning of this expression: Our climate is indisposed to favour us even this once (The Cherry Orchard) What does "even this once" mean in this phrase?
- What is the word for a person who never listens to other peoples . . .
There is one person I know who never accepts other people's opinions and ideas, even if those opinions and ideas are worthwhile What single word might describe such an attitude?
- An idiom or phrase for when youre about to be ill
3 How about indisposed? OD: indisposed: slightly unwell Your example: I'm sorry I can't come for dinner tonight because I'm indisposed Indisposed has the advantage of describing a condition the lies between feeling well and actually being sick, perhaps a harbinger of an incipient illness
- Whats the meaning of the word tad? [closed]
I’m a tad indisposed ’ 1976 Time 27 Sept 39 2 ― ‘Pull ’er up a tad, please, mister,’ said the nonchalant teen-ager pumping gas 1977 Time 14 Mar 28 3 ― White House watchers also think they can glimpse a tad of arrogance showing through the good ole boy pose 1977 Globe Mail (Toronto) 15 Dec 8 2 ― Things are a tad hectic
- What is a word that means Knowing that someone will not do something . . .
I was recently playing a manhunt game with my girlfriend and friends After a while, she was the last alive and I threatened to break up with her to make her come out of her hiding spot But my f
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