Adjective

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Having no stake or interest in the outcome; free of bias, impartial.

* 1791 , (James Boswell), Life of Samuel Johnson :

Sir, you have a right to that kind of respect, and are arguing for yourself. I am supporting the principle, and am disinterested in doing it, as I have no such right.

* 1919 , , :

With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; [...]

*2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 220:

*:People are better off abjuring violence, if everyone else agrees to do so, and vesting authority in a disinterested third party.

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Uninterested, lacking interest.

* 1684 , Contempl. State of Man I. x

How dis-interested are they in all Worldly matters, since they fling their Wealth and Riches into the Sea.

* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 43:

Robin took to wandering again, to intermittent travel from which she came back hours, days later, disinterested .

* 1967 , Tommy Frazer, The Sun (Baltimore), "A 'Doctor' Of Karate", March 27

Those spotted are usually taught so slowly that they grow disinterested and quit.