disinterest
IPA: dɪsˈɪntɝʌst
noun
- An absence of interest (attention or curiosity).
- The absence of interest (bias or stake).
- (obsolete) What is contrary to interest or advantage.
verb
- (transitive) To render disinterested.
adjective
- (obsolete) Free of personal bias.
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Examples of "disinterest" in Sentences
- Everybody wants approval, and disinterest is almost as bad as disapproval.
- As childish as it sounds, I think my disinterest comes from the lack of physical action in the book.
- The Labour Party, if their past performance, and their present disinterest, is any indication, are even more opposed.
- This calm disinterest is often why many organizations hire arbitrators to help negotiate contracts between say, a union and a company.
- Downing Street have released the initial details of Prime Minister Gollum Brown's Cabinet reshuffle to awed disinterest from the world.
- However, touch-screen voters were EIGHT times more likely not to register any vote at all -- obviously a sign of error on the machine's part rather than disinterest from the voter in the booth.
- Against the explicitly but restrictively political mandates of critical and monumental histories, antiquarian history holds out the ideal of disinterest, even as disinterest is deemed no longer possible.
- In fact, a few songs here are leftovers from earlier unreleased sessions and singles sides to pad the album to 11 tracks, a clear sign of growing label disinterest after his relatively conceptually unified
- Author James Bradley has a wonderfully in-depth review of The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham: Yet this disinterest is of a piece with the novel's desire to unsettle not by transporting the reader to a world unknown to them, but by taking the world they know and exposing the assumptions at its core.
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