disinterest

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[ US /dɪˈsɪntɝəst/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsˈɪntɹəst/ ]
NOUN
  1. tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement
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How To Use disinterest In A Sentence

  • Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
  • People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
  • No surer sign of a female character's evilness is his disinterest or refusal to reproduce. Michael Giltz: Halloween DVDs: The Exorcist, Psycho, Troll 2 and More
  • Prayer, and receive the Sacrament every day; because they do not subject and submit themselves wholly and entirely to him that hath Light, nor deny and conquer themselves, nor give up themselves totally to God, with a perfect divesting and disinteresting of themselves: In a word, till the Soul be purified in the Fire of Inward Pain, it will never get to a State of The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland.
  • Instead, his dull eyes flicked disinterestedly from ice house to ice house, noting the plume of smoke drifting from each.
  • Small wonder younger people are so disinterested in serving the community.
  • From the beginning, they have echoed their disinterest in matters like chart placings and mass popularity.
  • An adjudicator must be, and must be seen to be, disinterested, unbiased and impartial.
  • Their close and financially rewarding relationship was sufficient to call into question the independence and disinterest of the directors.
  • He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
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