unconcern

Example Sentences

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Villanueva’s controversial decisions to reinstate fired deputies and what she called his apparent unconcern over the existence of secret societies of tattooed deputies helped garner further support, Cannick said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2020

I suppose its general intent is to serve for a woman who wants to distinguish, and perhaps to ironize, her participation in the entrenched trend of military wear by professing unconcern with style.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2018

Before Sunday’s game against the Jets, Bush professed unconcern about his ignominious mark.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2017

Airy unconcern about the state of one’s home, marriage, or children, masking a deeper unspoken acknowledgment that all will forever exist in a state of chaos?

From Slate • May 8, 2015

They were avoiding the topic with a deliberate unconcern; he must be somewhere now, I thought, doing something, what I didn’t want to ask.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt