disinterested

Example Sentences

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For a team with everything to play for, the Kings looked distracted and disinterested.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

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

Miedema can sometimes look disinterested, or seem uninvolved, but that's just how she plays - it means she is sometimes underestimated, when she is always dangerous.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 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

The preferred sense of disinterested as “impartial,” for example, has coexisted for centuries with its frowned-upon sense as “bored.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker