All 30 Uses of
indifferent
in
The Mill on the Floss
- There were particular ways of doing everything in that family: particular ways of bleaching the linen, of making the cowslip wine, curing the hams, and keeping the bottled gooseberries; so that no daughter of that house could be indifferent to the privilege of having been born a Dodson, rather than a Gibson or a Watson.†
Chpt 1.6
- Maggie would have thought a little while ago that she could never be cross with pretty little Lucy, any more than she could be cruel to a little white mouse; but then, Tom had always been quite indifferent to Lucy before, and it had been left to Maggie to pet and make much of her.†
Chpt 1.10
- "Sitting under the tree, against the pond," said Tom, apparently indifferent to everything but the string and the turkey-cock.†
Chpt 1.10
- And Mr. Glegg was just as fond of saving other people's money as his own; he would have ridden as far round to avoid a turnpike when his expenses were to be paid for him, as when they were to come out of his own pocket, and was quite zealous in trying to induce indifferent acquaintances to adopt a cheap substitute for blacking.†
Chpt 1.12
- This struck Mr. Stelling as something more than natural stupidity; he suspected obstinacy, or at any rate indifference, and lectured Tom severely on his want of thorough application.†
Chpt 2.1
- Tom was too clear-sighted not to be aware that Mr. Stelling's standard of things was quite different, was certainly something higher in the eyes of the world than that of the people he had been living amongst, and that, brought in contact with it, he, Tom Tulliver, appeared uncouth and stupid; he was by no means indifferent to this, and his pride got into an uneasy condition which quite nullified his boyish self-satisfaction, and gave him something of the girl's susceptibility.†
Chpt 2.1
- In these fits of susceptibility every glance seemed to him to be charged either with offensive pity or with ill-repressed disgust; at the very least it was an indifferent glance, and Philip felt indifference as a child of the south feels the chill air of a northern spring.†
Chpt 2.4
- In these fits of susceptibility every glance seemed to him to be charged either with offensive pity or with ill-repressed disgust; at the very least it was an indifferent glance, and Philip felt indifference as a child of the south feels the chill air of a northern spring.†
Chpt 2.4
- She had become almost indifferent to her mother's habitual depreciation of her, but she was keenly alive to any sanction of it, however passive, that she might suspect in Tom.†
Chpt 3.2
- "I suppose so," said Tom, with a sort of desperate indifference.†
Chpt 3.6
- To him entered Tom, in what appeared to Mr. Glegg very questionable companionship,—that of a man with a pack on his back,—for Bob was equipped for a new journey,—and of a huge brindled bull-terrier, who walked with a slow, swaying movement from side to side, and glanced from under his eye-lids with a surly indifference which might after all be a cover to the most offensive designs.†
Chpt 5.2
- Maggie's manner this morning had been as unconstrained and indifferent as ever.†
Chpt 5.4
- But she was not looking indifferent now.
Chpt 5.4 *indifferent = without interest
- This wide statement, by which Mrs. Pullet represented the fact that she had twice seen Philip at the spot indicated, produced an effect on Maggie which was all the stronger because Tom sate opposite her, and she was intensely anxious to look indifferent.†
Chpt 5.5
- "Just as she likes," said Tom indifferently.†
Chpt 5.6
- "No," said Stephen, with rather supercilious indifference.†
Chpt 6.1
- I notice men with indifferent voices are usually of that opinion.†
Chpt 6.1
- "No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference," said Maggie, flushing a little.†
Chpt 6.2
- But when one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.†
Chpt 6.2
- She did not think of such things with frivolous indifference, and Tom must not accuse her of that.†
Chpt 6.4
- A little extra paleness, a little tension of the nostril when he spoke, and the voice pitched in rather a higher key, that to strangers would seem expressive of cold indifference, were all the signs Philip usually gave of an inward drama that was not without its fierceness.†
Chpt 6.7
- Maggie gave the tips of her fingers, and said, "Quite well, thank you," in a tone of proud indifference.†
Chpt 6.7
- I am afraid there would have been a subtle, stealing gratification in her mind if she had known how entirely this saucy, defiant Stephen was occupied with her; how he was passing rapidly from a determination to treat her with ostentatious indifference to an irritating desire for some sign of inclination from her,—some interchange of subdued word or look with her.†
Chpt 6.7
- But to Philip's mind, filled already with a vague anxiety that was likely to find a definite ground for itself in any trivial incident, this sudden eagerness in Stephen, and the change in Maggie's face, which was plainly reflecting a beam from his, seemed so strong a contrast with the previous overwrought signs of indifference, as to be charged with painful meaning.†
Chpt 6.7
- They had begun the morning with an indifferent salutation, and both had rejoiced in being aloof from each other, like a patient who has actually done without his opium, in spite of former failures in resolution.†
Chpt 6.9
- She heard confusedly the busy, indifferent voices around her, and wished her mind could flow into that easy babbling current.†
Chpt 6.9
- She saw it daily—saw it in the sickened look of fatigue with which, as soon as he was not compelled to exert himself, he relapsed into indifference toward everything but the possibility of watching her.†
Chpt 6.13
- It is enough to make you hate me, since you don't love me well enough to make everything else indifferent to you, as I do you.†
Chpt 6.13
- But she was hurried along, and was indifferent to everything but the coming trial.†
Chpt 6.14
- I have no motives; I am indifferent to everything.†
Chpt 7.5
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."