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

Miedema can sometimes look disinterested, or seem uninvolved, but that's just how she plays - it means she is sometimes underestimated, when she is always dangerous.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2025

Other patients reported their therapists acted disinterested or unprofessional, a finding Jo said could be tied to the relatively low pay therapists earn on some apps.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 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

James Franck had been correct when he wrote after Hiroshima and Nagasaki that scientists could no longer “disclaim direct responsibility for the use to which mankind had put their disinterested discoveries.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik