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Their long-standing antagonism kept university scientists free of contaminating industry ties, and whenever debate arose about technological matters, disinterested scientists were available to discuss the issues at the highest levels. (source)disinterested = unaffected by self-interest
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As I listened, I felt a strange sensation of distance that bordered on disinterestedness, as if my future with Tyler, this brother I had known and loved all my life, was a film I had already seen and knew the ending of.† (source)
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It lay as it had lain, one loop off the frame, the brass nozzle on the hall floor, the nozzle pointing disinterestedly away from him.† (source)
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He stared as Jace reached out a hand and gently, almost disinterestedly, caressed the hilt of the sword that had been driven into the floor.† (source)
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Even among officers, those who acted with true "disinterestedness" were "no more than a drop in the ocean," wrote this most disinterested and selfless of officers.† (source)
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When evening finally came he lit the lamps and began to page disinterestedly through a book.† (source)
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He looks up at them, disinterested and maybe disgusted by the baby, because he wanders deeper into the recesses of the cluttered store to get away.† (source)
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And when he pointed out, refusing to respect her pretense at disinterestedness, that he had only two barns built, instead of the fifteen or twenty of a big farmer, and that he could not expect to make thousands, even if the season were good, she brushed this warning aside.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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'Where've you been?' he demanded rudely and disinterestedly, without looking up.† (source)
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A tall black woman in a tailored suit, her short-clipped hair touched with gray, slipped out from behind the wheel, handed the car keys to the doorman, and cast a disinterested glance at the house on the hill.† (source)
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Well, I should hate to lose your friendship," she said primly and, with an attempt at disinterestedness, bent down to pull the blanket closer about Ella Lorena's head.† (source)
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It is the foremost concern of Miss Cartwright, as it should be for all those who love my Son disinterestedly, to pray for his restoration to health and the full use of his mental faculties.† (source)
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But she maintained an infuriatingly disinterested expression, as if she hadn't the slightest awareness of the hunt that was underway.† (source)
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Of course you don't expect younger men to have this kind of evening-Mississippi serenity, but there wasn't much disinterestedness or contemplation in either of them.† (source)
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What are we going to observe disinterestedly?† (source)
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Kohler shrugged, apparently disinterested.† (source)
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