disinterest

Example Sentences

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Hanks said the cast related to the storyline because they had all "met that disinterest" of young people who "look down at their phone, look up, look down, look up".

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Kadhafi was overthrown and killed in 2011, and though the censorship of his era has declined, its effects are still deeply felt through underinvestment and public disinterest.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

Describing “Tron: Ares” as a box office flop is an understatement – more like, it crashed into the public’s disinterest and burst into thousands of tiny cubes.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2025

The image of Ginsberg that vividly emerges is that of an angry, bushily bearded man, polemicizing about corporations and the Times’s malign influence, and often breaking out in spiritualist chanting, all to Hujar’s profound disinterest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

I was trying to think of some response when he looked away in disinterest.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt