How to Use disinterested in a Sentence

disinterested

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  • The Warriors limped down the home stretch of the season, a step slow and a lot disinterested.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Ireland players saw it all and told it all to the disinterested ref, but the goal stood and the Boys in Green fell.
    — SI.com, 21 June 2019
  • And that is the main reason for the almost disinterested shrugs on all sides.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Cook has looked disinterested at times in the past, but this could be his finest season yet.
    — Dr. Roto, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The logical mind cries out for someone to come in here and be a disinterested arbiter of fact and the law.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Apr. 2012
  • The equivalent of a disinterested catwalk hair flip and a shrug — and not the fabric kind.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 15 June 2017
  • But usually the man at the front desk is very disinterested.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The second Aquaman, like the first, is true to itself: a chintzy blast of machismo every bit as disinterested in regime change as its bulky hero is.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And, over the last decade or so, under the disinterested stewardship of the Kroenke family, there have been plenty of those.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Alito and Thomas and the rest were not engaged in a disinterested scrutiny of rights and rules.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2022
  • The Spaniard is held in high regard by the Gunners, but like Mustafi, Bellerin has been soft and looked disinterested at times in crucial moments.
    — SI.com, 17 May 2018
  • And looking disinterested in Game 4 on the road in conference play, that’s a very troubling sign.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2019
  • In the image, Chauvin has a disinterested look on his face, his sunglasses sit on top of his head, and his hand rests in his pocket.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Tom Cruise has always seemed disinterested in his Louisville connections and, to be fair, Louisville hasn't been all that hot on him, either.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The small actions by Bush were believed to have hurt him, as appearing disinterested in the debate.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 June 2024
  • There are people who sell weapons to both sides, disinterested and greedy gamblers and a new generation of Force users in the waiting out there in the galaxy.
    — Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Then again, what is Lue supposed to do with an old, disinterested roster?
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • That was huge for Crystal, who felt the teacher wrongly viewed her as a disinterested student.
    — Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 14 June 2021
  • The other side of it is that disinterested altruism takes many forms.
    — Helaine Olen, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2017
  • The attorney drafts proofs of heirship that will be signed in court by the applicant and the disinterested witnesses.
    — Dallas News, 12 June 2022
  • Matta's teams showed little fight the past few years, and often looked disinterested.
    — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 1 July 2017
  • The sad truth is the 45th president of the United States is disinterested in being the president of all Americans.
    — Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Playing the second night of a back-to-back, the Thunder looked totally disinterested in mounting any kind of comeback.
    — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Younger residents that seem disinterested in carrying on the play are often shown with heads in their screens.
    — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Note also that government will not be a disinterested judge of what is its proper share of others’ wealth.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 17 July 2019
  • But Pollini scrubbed away the last traces of perfume, inspecting the skeletons under a bright light in the spirit of disinterested inquiry.
    — Alan G. Artner, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
  • There's just one problem: The process of line-drawing, of deciding which opinions are acceptable and which are not, is not a disinterested act.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Montreal (4-4-5), which looked disinterested in generating offense in the initial half, played a large chunk of the second half in the offensive end of the field.
    — Sam McDowell, kansascity.com, 10 June 2017
  • This leads to a novel conception of the truth and of disinterested ideals in general, which would hardly have been intelligible to previous centuries.
    — Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
  • But endorsements from celebrities and influencers may force some of these disinterested Americans to pay attention, or even take action.
    — Meredith Conroy, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2024

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