uninterested

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  1. adjective Without an interest: uninterested parties.
  2. adjective Not having a financial interest.
  3. adjective Marked by or exhibiting a lack of interest. See Usage Note at disinterested.

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  • I do hope you realize that every time you use disinterested to mean uninterested, an angel dies, and every time you write very unique, or "We will hire whomever is more qualified," thousands of literate people lose yet another little smidgen of hope.
  • Philip looked at the detective, uninterested, then back to his father and said, "Hold out your hand." —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • The publishing industry seems uninterested, and the computer industry is more concerned with developing exotic technologies such as interactive full-motion video transmitted through fiber-optic cable. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
  • The voice was very quiet; it was polite yet in a curious way uninterested, as if this man's thoughts were really somewhere quite far away. —  Christie, Agatha - Hallowe'en 2
  • Moreover, so uninterested were these people in the rest of the world and its denizens that Lord Gho Fhaazi had no further curiosity about him. —  And when Elric had told his three lies to Cymoril, his betrothed, and had set his ambitious cousin Yyrkoon as Regent on the Ru
 

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/ənˈɪntərɛstɛd/
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