interestedness
Example Sentences
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I might give them what degree of credit I pleased; and take them with abatement for Mr. Solmes's interestedness, if I thought fit.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
I think it was the clearness and understanding in them, and a sort of great interestedness.
From The White People by Frances Hodgson Burnett
However, through all the rigid discipline the little girl retained her natural buoyancy of childhood, the spontaneous interestedness, the cheerfulness and animation, which were a part of her goodly heritage.
From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Helen Mason Groce
The especial point of excellence which characterizes the work of the Negro teacher is its interestedness.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
"Take into account the skill of forgers and the interestedness of apologists and calumniators."
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
