All 12 Uses of
indifferent
in
The Awakening
- "You used to think the cook was a treasure," returned Edna, indifferently.†
Chpt 17
- Mrs. Highcamp was a worldly but unaffected, intelligent, slim, tall blonde woman in the forties, with an indifferent manner and blue eyes that stared.†
Chpt 25
- Mrs. Highcamp remained, as usual, unmoved, with her indifferent stare and uplifted eyebrows.†
Chpt 25
- Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and warmed the room indifferently.†
Chpt 26
- Her attention was never for a moment withdrawn from him after seating herself at table; and when he turned to Mrs. Merriman, who was prettier and more vivacious than Mrs. Highcamp, she waited with easy indifference for an opportunity to reclaim his attention.†
Chpt 30
- "Does he boast of his successes?" asked Edna, indifferently, squinting at her picture.†
Chpt 33
- She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness,—not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to Fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.†
Chpt 35
- Edna had intended to be indifferent and as reserved as he when she met him; she had reached the determination by a laborious train of reasoning, incident to one of her despondent moods.†
Chpt 36
- "You save yourself something—I don't know what—but there is some selfish motive, and in sparing yourself you never consider for a moment what I think, or how I feel your neglect and indifference.†
Chpt 36
- you have made me so unhappy with your indifference.
Chpt 36 *indifference = lack of interest
- "Oh, well!" she answered, indifferently.†
Chpt 38
- But Victor's astonishment was so genuine, and Mrs. Pontellier's indifference so apparent, that the disturbing notion did not lodge long in her brain.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(indifferent) without interestin various senses, including:
- unconcerned -- as in "She is indifferent to what is served to eat."
- unsympathetic -- as in "She is indifferent to his needs."
- not of good quality (which may imply average or poor quality depending upon context) -- as in "an indifferent performance"
- impartial -- as in "We need a judge who is indifferent."