All 13 Uses of
indifferent
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet.†
Chpt 1indifferent = without interest
- You like everyone; that is to say, you are indifferent to everyone.†
Chpt 1
- The next time he calls, you will be perfectly cold and indifferent.
Chpt 1 *
- He looked pale, and proud, and indifferent.†
Chpt 7
- But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her.†
Chpt 8
- Or was it indifferent to results?†
Chpt 8
- After all, his indifference was probably merely a mood that would pass away.†
Chpt 9
- It was the creation of such worlds as these that seemed to Dorian Gray to be the true object, or amongst the true objects, of life; and in his search for sensations that would be at once new and delightful, and possess that element of strangeness that is so essential to romance, he would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature, abandon himself to their subtle influences, and then, having, as it were, caught their colour and satisfied his intellectual curiosity, leave them with that curious indifference that is not incompatible with a real ardour of temperament, and that indeed, according to certain modern psychologists, is often a condition of it.†
Chpt 11
- Don't be so indifferent.†
Chpt 12
- I am simply indifferent to the whole thing.†
Chpt 14
- "How long will your experiment take, Alan?" he said, in a calm, indifferent voice.†
Chpt 14
- The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself.†
Chpt 18
- He was dominated by the carelessness of happiness, by the high indifference of joy.†
Chpt 18
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."