indifferent
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His work is often described as Kafkaesque, and it is true that his clerks, like the characters of Franz Kafka, are trapped in a bizarre world of senseless rules under a cold and indifferent authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
None of this is an argument that the FHA should be indifferent to a specific lender’s origination practices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Had it been someone different, a player who had previously not been a manager's dream to work with, Emery's response might have been more indifferent.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
This is not the work of a justice indifferent to slavery or unmoved by the constitutional catastrophe of Dred Scott.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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