unconcern
IPA: ʌnkʌnsˈɝn
noun
- Lack of interest or care; indifference or apathy.
- Freedom from worry or apprehensiveness; insouciance or nonchalance.
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Examples of "unconcern" in Sentences
- The raven pretended unconcern and stretched his wings.
- Kevles's history almost entirely ignores both the "unconcern" of the majority and the "concern" of the minority.
- Whenever women turn up in the stories, a rancorous tone intrudes that is badly at odds with his characters' merry unconcern.
- This time he tried the one that folks call "unconcern," a look as if he had no troubles at all, as if he had nothing to hide.
- "It bears the marks of that superb unconcern which is the characteristic of genius," replied the Ambitious Writer, contemptuously passing him by.
- "Yes, Captain," he said, with the same quiet unconcern with which he would have accepted an invitation to dinner; "I'll go with you to Mangareva."
- Ignore it deliberately, as a kitten stalks away with feigned unconcern from a suddenly tedious cotton-reel, in the hope that, seen afresh from the other side of the room, it will turn once more into a mouse.
- That evidence of their essential "unconcern" was established by interviews and reported in Alice Kimball Smith's A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists 'Movement in America, 1945-1947 (MIT Press, 1970, pp. 60-61.)
- Donning an unadorned and boyish wardrobe that itself did not "weigh heavily," she fashioned renunciation into a contrary look of simplicity, ineffability, transcendent unconcern her competitor Paul Poiret called it "poverty deluxe".
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