Word Finder - disinterested

definition

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

definition

Uninterested, lacking interest.

The social feeling that inspired this disinterested act showed itself in other ways.

His tone was disinterested.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

But he had not his fathers great soul nor disinterested spirit.

His heart was kind and his affections were strong; he was magnanimous and disinterested, simple and honest.

How far Edward's solicitude was disinterested may be gauged from Froissart's parallel remark about the battle of Aljubarrota, where, as at Agincourt, the handful of victors were obliged by a sudden panic to slay their prisoners.

Notwithstanding some obvious moral and intellectual defects, he was the most eminent and the most disinterested of those who had co-operated with William I.

In many cases, the Local Authority appeared disinterested.

No matter how busy your day is, no matter how many stressors you face, and no matter how disinterested you may be in the subject, promise yourself you'll take the time to listen.

At least Milner ran his socks off, Pennant looked disinterested.

If they are allowed to become disinterested and are left to their own devices, you may find that they have dismantled the blender or gone backpacking without you!

His patriotism was conspicuous and disinterested.

You can come across as being rather carefree and disinterested in serious relationships.

He seemed totally disinterested in this breach of privacy.

Then the duo themselves seemed disinterested in working at all.

Young people aren't disinterested in politics - they're disinterested in politics - they're disinterested in party politics.

Beside not giving a hoot about the story, the disinterested observer is often hoodwinked and subject to public-relations manipulations.

If a dog is usually an energetic eater and suddenly becomes disinterested in his food, you may have cause for concern.

An individual who seems disinterested in communicating efficiently with an owner may also be inadequate at caring for your dog during his stay.

Appearing disinterested when the person we like is around, or speaking to us.

Though he lacked the brilliant qualities of his rival Wallqvist, Nordin had the same alertness and penetration, and was infinitely more stable and disinterested.

The motives of the earl's defiance were not altogether disinterested.

He was chiefly identified with the Socialists in England and the Social Democratic parties on the Continent; but he was regarded by men of all opinions as an agitator whose motives had always been pure and disinterested.

He was also a man of great moral conscientiousness, and as far as intention went perfectly disinterested.

Mill that disinterested ?.

He became disinterested in our life, only his mattered.

It is clear to even the most disinterested observer that the cost of purchasing a PC has fallen considerably.

Samuel Hopkins laid even greater stress than Edwards on the theorem that virtue consists in disinterested benevolence; but he went counter to Edwards in holding that unconditional resignation to God's decrees, or more concretely, willingness to be damned for the glory of God, was the test of true regeneration; for Edwards, though often quoted as holding this doctrine, protested against it in the strongest terms. Hopkins, moreover, denied Edwards's identity theory of original sin, saying that our sin was a result of Adam's and not identical with it; and he went much further than Edwards in his objection to " means of grace," claiming that the unregenerate were more and more guilty for continual rejection of the gospel if they were outwardly righteous and availed themselves of the means of grace.

But Pitt's prodigious egoism, stimulated by the mischievous counsels of men of the stamp of Lord Shelburne, prevented the fusion of the only two sections of the Whig party that were at once able, enlightened and disinterested enough to carry on the government efficiently, to check the arbitrary temper of the king, and to command the confidence of the nation.

You'll instruct them to "Stay," and they walk away disinterested.

This sort of knowledge stands quite apart from that produced by "theoretic" and "disinterested" judgments.

In the first case prayer will 'be accompanied with disinterested homage, praise and thankgiving, and will in fact tend to lose its distinctive character of entreaty or petition, passing into a mystic communing or converse with God.

Finally we have to glance at a new list of definitions which perhaps in some cases seek more or less to formulate modern Protestant ideas, but which in general represent rather the world of disinterested historical scholarship.

He realized the disinterested aims pursued by the British government, without always approving its methods.

Nevertheless, we cannot regard Catiline as an honest enemy of the oligarchy, or as a disinterested champion of the provincials.

But all expedients are worth trying in the hour of ruin, and seeing that Joan was disinterested and sincere, and that her preaching exercised a marked influence over the people and the soldiery, Charles allowed her to march with the last levies that he put into the field for the relief of Orleans.

The earl had his established reputation for disinterested devotion to the welfare of the realm, and his brilliant record as a soldier and statesman.

Disinterested discussions by experts for experts is medieval rather than primitive.

To this Hutcheson replies that no doubt the exquisite delight of the emotion of love is a motive to sustain and develop it; but this pleasure cannot be directly obtained, any more than other pleasures, by merely desiring it; it can be sought only by the indirect method of cultivating and indulging the disinterested desire for others' good, which is thus obviously distinct from the desire for the pleasure of benevolence.

Finally, Price, writing after the demonstration by Shaftesbury and Butler of the actuality of disinterested impulses in human nature, is bolder and clearer than Cudworth or Clarke in insisting that right actions are to be chosen because they are right by virtuous agents as such, even going so far as to lay down that an act loses its moral worth in proportion as it is done from natural inclination.

As regards moral sentiments generally, the view suggested by Mill is more definitely given by the chief living representative of the associationist school, Alexander Bain; by whom the distinctive characteristics of conscience are traced to " education under government or authority," though prudence, disinterested sympathy and other emotions combine to swell the mass of feeling vaguely denoted by the term moral.

He was always so... disinterested, and then all of a sudden...

Nor can specialist translators be expected to be entirely disinterested.

While he may be completely disinterested, let him have the chance to be a part of the decision.

In fact, the new owners were so disinterested in the waterway that the canal didn't even have a head office.

During the second half, as the Swindon players had asserted their superiority, the fans had grown increasingly disinterested.

He gained from the struggle a more catholic view of human happiness, at delight in the poetry of nature and the affections as well as the poetry of heroic unselfishness, a disposition to study more sympathetically the point of view of opponents, a more courteous style of polemic, a hatred of sectarianism, an ambition,, no less noble and disinterested, but moderated to practical' possibilities.

It is obvious that all actions conducive to the general good will deserve our highest approbation if done from disinterested benevolence; but how if they are not so done ?

If the game is not a challenge, the child may become bored and disinterested in playing.

Thirdly, when Xenophanes himself says that theories about gods and about things are not knowledge, that his own utterances are not verities but verisimilitudes, and that, so far from learning things by revelation, man must laboriously seek a better opinion, he plainly renounces the "disinterested pursuit of truth."