All 30 Uses of
indifferent
in
Bleak House
- I have a great respect for Mr. Jarndyce, and no one in whom he is interested can be an object of indifference to me.†
Chpt 4-6
- "The universe," he observed, "makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid."†
Chpt 4-6
- We were glad to change the subject, and going to the window, pointed out the beauties of the prospect, on which the spectacles appeared to me to rest with curious indifference.†
Chpt 7-9
- It is, however, the possession, and the only possession except fifty shillings per annum and a very small box indifferently filled with clothing, of a lean young woman from a workhouse (by some supposed to have been christened Augusta) who, although she was farmed or contracted for during her growing time by an amiable benefactor of his species resident at Tooting, and cannot fail to have been developed under the most favourable circumstances, "has fits," which the parish can't account…†
Chpt 10-12
- He is as indifferent to the honour of knowing me, I dare say, as I am to the honour of knowing him.†
Chpt 16-18
- She had given him her hand in an indifferent way that seemed habitual to her and spoke in a correspondingly indifferent manner, though in a very pleasant voice.†
Chpt 16-18
- She had given him her hand in an indifferent way that seemed habitual to her and spoke in a correspondingly indifferent manner, though in a very pleasant voice.†
Chpt 16-18
- "In the first place," returns Mr. George, but still looking at Judy as if she being so old and so like her grandfather it is indifferent which of the two he addresses, "you gentlemen took me in.†
Chpt 19-21
- The theatre over, Mr. George comes across the water again and makes his way to that curious region lying about the Haymarket and Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket-courts, fightingmen, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming-houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight.†
Chpt 19-21
- The theatre over, Mr. George comes across the water again and makes his way to that curious region lying about the Haymarket and Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket-courts, fightingmen, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming-houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight.†
Chpt 19-21
- I was not surprised by Caddy's being in low spirits when we went downstairs, or by her sobbing afresh on my neck, or by her saying she would far rather have been scolded than treated with such indifference, or by her confiding to me that she was so poor in clothes that how she was ever to be married creditably she didn't know.†
Chpt 22-24
- When this young heathen now among us—who is now, my friends, asleep, the seal of indifference and perdition being set upon his eyelids; but do not wake him, for it is right that I should have to wrestle, and to combat and to struggle, and to conquer, for his sake—when this young hardened heathen told us a story of a cock, and of a bull, and of a lady, and of a sovereign, was THAT the Terewth?†
Chpt 25-27
- These he utters with an appearance of perfect indifference as he looks over the papers on his table and prepares to write a letter.†
Chpt 25-27
- Proceeding to converse on indifferent matters, they walk up and down the little street, keeping step and time, until summoned by Quebec and Malta to do justice to the pork and greens, over which Mrs. Bagnet, like a military chaplain, says a short grace.†
Chpt 25-27
- Beautiful, elegant, accomplished, and powerful in her little world (for the world of fashion does not stretch ALL the way from pole to pole), her influence in Sir Leicester's house, however haughty and indifferent her manner, is greatly to improve it and refine it.†
Chpt 28-30
- He sees my Lady pretty often, too; and he and she are as composed, and as indifferent, and take as little heed of one another, as ever.†
Chpt 28-30
- Leaving him in the hall for a moment, shrunk into the corner of the window-seat and staring with an indifference that scarcely could be called wonder at the comfort and brightness about him, I went into the drawing-room to speak to my guardian.†
Chpt 31-33
- In the midst of his perfect assumption of indifference, he directs a sharp look at the trooper, taking care to stand with his own back to the light and to have the other with his face towards it.†
Chpt 34-36
- Even in the thinking of her endurance, she drew her habitual air of proud indifference about her like a veil, though she soon cast it off again.†
Chpt 34-36
- He is indifferent to everything but his calling.
Chpt 34-36 *indifferent = without interest
- I am not sure, my dear girl, but that it may be wise and specious to preserve that outward indifference.†
Chpt 37-39
- I am quite sure, if you will let me say so, that the object of your choice would greatly prefer to follow your fortunes far and wide, however moderate or poor, and see you happy, doing your duty and pursuing your chosen way, than to have the hope of being, or even to be, very rich with you (if such a thing were possible) at the cost of dragging years of procrastination and anxiety and of your indifference to other aims.†
Chpt 37-39
- As indifferent as if all passion, feeling, and interest had been worn out in the earlier ages of the world and had perished from its surface with its other departed monsters.†
Chpt 46-48
- My Lady merely waves her off with indifference, saying, "There, there, child!†
Chpt 46-48
- And to think of that rusty carbine, stock and barrel, standing up on end in his corner, hard, indifferent, taking everything so evenly—it made flesh and blood tingle, I do assure you.†
Chpt 49-51
- With the same kind intention, manifestly, he often spoke to me of indifferent things, while his face was busy with the one object that we had in view.†
Chpt 55-57
- She is discussed by her dear friends with all the genteelest slang in vogue, with the last new word, the last new manner, the last new drawl, and the perfection of polite indifference.†
Chpt 58-60
- …vaguely the town talk is that people hovering on the confines of Mr. Sladdery's high connexion, people who know nothing and ever did know nothing about her, think it essential to their reputation to pretend that she is their topic too, and to retail her at secondhand with the last new word and the last new manner, and the last new drawl, and the last new polite indifference, and all the rest of it, all at second-hand but considered equal to new in inferior systems and to fainter stars.†
Chpt 58-60
- Volumnia has taken Mrs. Rouncewell's place in the meantime, though pearl necklaces and rouge pots, however calculated to embellish Bath, are but indifferent comforts to the invalid under present circumstances.†
Chpt 58-60
- He ate little and seemed indifferent what it was, showed himself to be much more impatient than he used to be, and was quick even with Ada.†
Chpt 58-60
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."