All 6 Uses of
disinterested
in
David Copperfield
- I am sure I loved that baby quite as truly, quite as tenderly, with greater purity and more disinterestedness, than can enter into the best love of a later time of life, high and ennobling as it is.†
Chpt 1-3
- I am sure when I think of the fellow now, my blood rises against him with the disinterested indignation I should feel if I could have known all about him without having ever been in his power; but it rises hotly, because I know him to have been an incapable brute, who had no more right to be possessed of the great trust he held, than to be Lord High Admiral, or Commander-in-Chief — in either of which capacities it is probable that he would have done infinitely less mischief.†
Chpt 7-9
- For I am generally disinterested in my love, and think I could be content to make a figure before Miss Larkins, and expire.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- You must not think my visit all friendly and disinterested, Trotwood, for — I am afraid I may be cruelly prejudiced — I do not like to let papa go away alone, with him.'†
Chpt 34-36
- He forgets nothing that is disinterested and good.'†
Chpt 49-51
- 'Indeed they must,' said I. 'You will find her,' pursued my aunt, 'as good, as beautiful, as earnest, as disinterested, as she has always been.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(disinterested) unaffected by self-interest