disinterested
IPA: dɪsˈɪntrɪstɪd
adjective
- Having no stake or interest in the outcome, and no conflicts of interest; free of bias, impartial.
- (proscribed) Uninterested, lacking interest.
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Examples of "disinterested" in Sentences
- Boyd had looked away, his expression disinterested.
- By the term disinterested I mean detached from ulterior objects.
- What we call disinterested, however, super-cats might call aimless.
- Congress has shown itself to be serially disinterested is such matters.
- He had never till now called upon me to make the shadow of a return for all his disinterested love -- _disinterested_, ah, was it so?
- The first of these defines aesthetic appreciation as _disinterested interest, _ gratuitously identifying self-interest with the practical pursuit of advantages we have not yet got; and overlooking the fact that such appreciation implies enjoyment and is so far the very reverse of disinterested.
- 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.
- -- Hence the value we attach, in the exercise of all the affections, to what we call disinterested conduct, -- to him who does good by stealth, or who performs acts of exalted justice, generosity, or forbearance, under circumstances which exclude every idea of a selfish motive, -- or when self-interest and personal feeling are strongly and obviously opposed to them.
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