'rather disagree' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express disagreement but don't want to be seen as disagreeing too strongly. For example, you could say "I rather disagree with that opinion."
I'd rather disagree, agree, laugh, cry in person.
And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States' policy is "what makes America different.
Sounding like a professor addressing a faculty colleague over sherry in the common room, Putin says he "would rather disagree" with him on a particular notion.
From absolutely disagree to rather disagree recoded as 1 = disagree; neither agree nor disagree coded as 2, from quite agree to absolutely agree recoded as 3 = agree.
Also, the vast majority of the teachers (87.3%) "disagree" (30.0% "absolutely disagree" and 57.3% "rather disagree") with "The instruction of primary education teachers (from their graduate studies or their adult education courses) is adequate in order to enable them to handle references relative to the evolution of organisms, when necessary".
The vast majority of the teachers (90%) "disagree," 58.9% "absolutely disagree," and 31.1% "rather disagree" with the notion that "It is not particularly necessary that primary education be informed about the theory of evolution, in order to be able to perform their duties in Primary School". 8.
WikiLeaks rather disagrees, of course, and has already "activated the appropriate contingency plans," of which it must have many, considering its controversial status and leader.
42 (11.8%) and 50 (14.1%) participants, respectively, rather disagreed that the quality of information given by the physician was good with respect to completeness and comprehensibility.
I rather strongly disagree.
Questions were phrased both positively and negatively to reduce the chances of response bias where participants may tend to agree rather than disagree with statements, a behaviour sometimes referred to as 'yeah saying' [ 18].
However, those results are not surprising as acquiescent response bias[ 23- 25], which is the tendency to agree with items rather than disagree, and social desirability bias[ 26], which is the will to give a positive self-image to the physician, are well-known phenomena when measuring patient satisfaction and self-declared compliance.
