disinterest
/dɪsˈɪntɹɛst/ verb C2- To render disinterested.
He/she/it disinterests · Past disinterested · Past participle disinterested · -ing form disinteresting
Verb forms
- Base form
- disinterest
- He/she/it
- disinterests
- Past
- disinterested
- Past participle
- disinterested
- -ing form
- disinteresting
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You may one of these days reap the reward of your disinterested devotion.
This was his plan of amends--of atonement--for inheriting their father’s estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and suitableness, and excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.
The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance; and Miss Lucas, who accepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that establishment were gained.
“But,” said Danglars, who, on his part, did not perceive how soon the conversation, which was at first disinterested, was turning to a business transaction, “there is, doubtless, a part of your fortune your father could not refuse you?”
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