disinterested
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Asked about that description, Sir Philip said: "The word I would use is disinterested."
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
The disinterested universe that serves as backdrop to Mr. Diaz’s world imposes no small amount of irony on Magellan’s campaign to convert the natives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Peter Henriques, an admirer of Washington who has recently published two insightful books on his character, writes that Washington “was not a ‘selfless’ man or one who was simply engaging in disinterested service.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026
Headstrong, queer and disinterested in Victorian pieties, she escaped her smothering Indianapolis family and headed to Chicago, where she hustled work as a bookseller and book reviewer.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
A good umpire should be disinterested, said Casey, but most certainly not uninterested.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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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