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Definition
without interest
in 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."
- Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her place upon the pedestal of shame, with glazed eyes, and an air of weary indifference.Chapter 3 -- The Recognition (95% in)
- "It may be so," said the young clergyman, indifferently, as waiving a discussion that he considered irrelevant or unseasonable.Chapter 10 -- The Leech and his Patient (43% in)
- His gestures, his gait, his grizzled beard, his slightest and most indifferent acts, the very fashion of his garments, were odious in the clergyman's sight; a token implicitly to be relied on of a deeper antipathy in the breast of the latter than he was willing to acknowledge to himself.Chapter 11 -- The Interior of a Heart (20% in)
There are no more uses of "indifferent" in The Scarlet Letter.
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