What is "disinterest"

Usage examples of "disinterest".

But it becomes exclusive for the individual who adopts it, because of the single-minded and disinterested manner in which it is pursued.

Allan Parrish, seventh Earl of Bridgeport, had been considered the top catch on the marriage mart for years, despite his determined disinterest in eligible females and despite the curse some still suspected hung over his head.

The lady patronesses were just as logy and disinterested in platter-faced chits as Aunt Harriet.

Vance, on the other hand, was volatile, debonair, and possessed of a perpetual Juvenalian cynicism, smiling ironically at the bitterest realities, and consistently fulfilling the role of a whimsically disinterested spectator of life.

Steeley, we have all heard ACOAs and AlaTeens and ACONAs and ACOGs and WHINERS relate clear cases of different kinds of abuse: beatings, diddlings, rapes, deprivations, domineerment, humiliation, captivity, torture, excessive criticism or even just utter disinterest.

I know precisely what he meant, even if the merchant adventurers I met were anything but disinterested.

Barent seemed almost disinterested, staring towards the cluster of four forgotten pawns at the far left of the board.

It can also boost the hormone levelsor reduce themto make you sexier or disinterested, heighten your aggression or turn you passive, control your effective I.

I should feel more were I surer your aid was disinterested, intended to further our ends rather than your own.

The earls of Oxford, Northumberland, and Cumberland, Sir Thomas Cecil, Sir Robert Cecil, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Vavasor, Sir Thomas Gerrard, Sir Charles Blount, with many others, distinguished themselves by this generous and disinterested service of their country.

The engaging frankness with which he made this declaration really had a disinterested appearance and captivated my guardian, if not, for the moment, Ada too.

He came back presently and said his principal was charmed with the idea of brickbats at three-quarters of a mile, but must decline on account of the danger to disinterested parties passing between them.

Defoe listened with mild disinterest to priority beeps coming over the comlink clipped to his ear.

After seeing a handful of children with runny noses, middle ear infections, and sore throats, Marissa found herself in an examination cubicle with an eight-month-old infant and a disinterested teenage mother.

I own that I have always felt a keener pleasure in doing good than in anything else, though, perhaps, I may not always have done good from strictly disinterested motives.