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disinterested

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[ US /dɪˈsɪnɹɪstɪd, dɪˈsɪntɹɪstɪd/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsˈɪntɹəstɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. unaffected by self-interest

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.
  • Kant defined "disinterestedness in aesthetic appreciation" as fundamental and important characteristics in "Critique of Judgment", which was also seen as the "quality" in beauty.
  • It's hard to think of a performance by an actor billed as the star of the picture that is any worse than the muttered, uncharismatic, disinterested effort delivered by Ice T in this film.
  • 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.
  • 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
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