disinterestedness

Example Sentences

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Political impartiality and personal disinterestedness are key to the official function of a judge in the American legal system.

From Slate • May 24, 2022

Matthew Arnold held disinterestedness, with curiosity, to be the properties with which the critic would save culture, by which he meant much more than just literature.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

The examiner will also look into whether the hotel’s lawyers satisfy the so-called disinterestedness test for representing a company in bankruptcy.

From BusinessWeek • Sep. 15, 2011

His fusing of scholarly disinterestedness and live intellectual curiosity was hard and rare.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2010

It violated the core of virtue and disinterestedness presumed essential for anyone properly equipped to oversee public affairs.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis