inclining
- n the act of inclining; bending forward
- v have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- v bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well
- v lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow
- v be at an angle
- v feel favorably disposed or willing
- v make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
- Oil-rich Azerbaijan, for example, had long begun inclining towards the West, but may be pushed back into Moscow's orbit because of Nagorno-Karabakh, a province that broke away in .
- Such conditions breed trouble, according to a recent report by the IPPR that identified the factors inclining a child to criminality.
- Of all the dapper gentlemen, none was more inspired and self-confident than Arnold Rothstein, a sleek Jew inclining to flesh in his late forties.