disinterested
Example Sentences
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While his interviewees are hardly disinterested observers, several persistent themes emerge from their comments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
Headstrong, queer and disinterested in Victorian pieties, she escaped her smothering Indianapolis family and headed to Chicago, where she hustled work as a bookseller and book reviewer.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
Albert recalled how there were training sessions when Asprilla was disinterested and "with us without being with us".
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025
Impressed by the peptide on the ingredient list, she asked the team about what it promised to do—but they seemed disinterested in discussing it, she recalls.
From Slate • May 4, 2025
Kino could see them in his mind, slipping along the track, whining a little with eagerness, and behind them, dark and half disinterested, the horseman with the rifle.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing disinterested
The Bluest Eye
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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Commonly Confused Words, List 3
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