disinterest

Example Sentences

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Friday’s softer-than-expected CPI reading, which showed the lowest reading for core inflation pressures in nearly five years, is the latest example of the market’s growing disinterest in economic data.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

In the light of his limited game time and Emery's often brutal honesty about his disinterest in signing him, Liverpool and Villa discussed altering the agreement in recent days.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

The image of Ginsberg that vividly emerges is that of an angry, bushily bearded man, polemicizing about corporations and the Times’s malign influence, and often breaking out in spiritualist chanting, all to Hujar’s profound disinterest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

So when those days roll around, it goes without saying: you don’t want a “mid” ham, the kind your guests push around on their plates with polite disinterest.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

“We’ll take the matter under consideration,” Colonel Korn said with bored disinterest, and started away.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller