Disinterested

He had never till now called upon me to make the shadow of a return for all his disinterested love -- _disinterested_, ah, was it so? ❋ Various (N/A)

The first of these defines aesthetic appreciation as _disinterested interest, _ gratuitously identifying self-interest with the practical pursuit of advantages we have not yet got; and overlooking the fact that such appreciation implies enjoyment and is so far the very reverse of disinterested. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

By the term disinterested I mean detached from ulterior objects. ❋ Various (N/A)

Boyd had looked away, his expression disinterested. ❋ Reed Arvin (2000)

Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. ❋ Hartley Withers (1908)

-- Hence the value we attach, in the exercise of all the affections, to what we call disinterested conduct, -- to him who does good by stealth, or who performs acts of exalted justice, generosity, or forbearance, under circumstances which exclude every idea of a selfish motive, -- or when self-interest and personal feeling are strongly and obviously opposed to them. ❋ John Abercrombie (1812)

Congress has shown itself to be serially disinterested is such matters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What we call disinterested, however, super-cats might call aimless. ❋ Clarence Day (1904)

It may refer, for instance, to the state of being free of prejudice or bias, to being "disinterested" - a word that in turn means almost the opposite of "uninterested." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jacob – disinterested is exactly the word I was groping for but couldn’t find thank you! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Only the terminally disinterested, which is to say a vast swath of the "booboisie", march lock step to the mainstream medias pied pipers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

‘This is what boys and girls call disinterested affection, till they have boys and girls of their own, and then they see it in a rougher and very different light!’ ❋ Unknown (2007)

"We looked disinterested, which is inexcusable," Hurricanes coach Peter Laviolette said. ❋ Unknown (2003)

We do not get from the contemporary authoress creative literature at all; that is, a disinterested criticism of mankind; we get in each picture of a male character her instinctive, and intensely interested, feeling as to whether or not he is a man whom it would be desirable, and safe, for a young woman to marry. ❋ Robert Cortes Holliday (N/A)

Certainly we shall have no difficulty in assenting to the wisdom of the rules laid down as to the conditions of punishment being useful: it must be (1) disinterested, that is, free from all feeling of revenge; ❋ Various (N/A)

Its first business was indeed to make instruments, but this fabrication is possible only by the employment of certain means which are not cut to the exact measure of their object, but go beyond it and thus allow intelligence a supplementary -- that is to say disinterested work. ❋ Henri Bergson (1900)

I had never found it was required of me to pose as a rabid loyalist, and so did not, being known as disinterested and indifferent, and perhaps for that reason not suspected. ❋ Unknown (1899)

I had been compelled to endow my shadowy relative with a comfortable little bit of money, in order to account for my devotion; since the powerful mind of my Horatio would have refused to grasp the idea of disinterested affection for an ancient kinswoman. ❋ Unknown (1875)