disinterested
Example Sentences
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It relied on Dreyer’s ostensibly disinterested advice, which was backed by powerful superior officers with whom he had ingratiated himself, even though a majority of expert gunnery officers unequivocally opposed it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Albert recalled how there were training sessions when Asprilla was disinterested and "with us without being with us".
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025
Hastings was selected by Anthropic’s Long Term Benefit Trust, which the company describes as “five financially disinterested members” that can select and remove a portion of the board.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 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
She was disgusted and tired, disinterested in anything that Ignatius might have to say.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing disinterested
The Bluest Eye
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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Commonly Confused Words, List 3
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