disinterested

How To Use disinterested 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.
• 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.
• An adjudicator must be, and must be seen to be, disinterested, unbiased and impartial.
• He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
• Kant defined "disinterestedness in aesthetic appreciation" as fundamental and important characteristics in "Critique of Judgment", which was also seen as the "quality" in beauty.
• With this new and bold initiative, we have shown to the world that Indian women are not politically passive or disinterested in public life.
• If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
• Her deportment was the subject of reams of scurrility in prose and verse: it lowered her in the opinion of some whose esteem she valued; nor did the world know, till she was beyond the reach of praise and censure, that the conduct which had brought on her the reproach of levity and insensibility was really a signal instance of that perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2