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US
/dɪˈsɪntɝəst/
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[ UK /dˌɪsˈɪntɹəst/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsˈɪntɹəst/ ]
NOUN
- tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement
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.