All 7 Uses of
disinterested
in
The House of Mirth
- She reaped the reward to which disinterestedness is entitled, and found an agreeable companion in her niece.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- It was not that she wanted them to be more disinterested; but she would have liked them to be more picturesque.†
Chpt 1.5
- Mr. Gryce was touched by her disinterestedness, and, to escape from the threatened vacuity of the afternoon, had taken her advice and departed mournfully, in a dust-hood and goggles: as the motor-car plunged down the avenue she smiled at his resemblance to a baffled beetle.†
Chpt 1.6
- …with extravagant tastes and no money had better marry the first rich man she could get; but with the subject of discussion at his side, turning to him for sympathy, making him feel that he understood her better than her dearest friends, and confirming the assurance by the appeal of her exquisite nearness, he was ready to swear that such a marriage was a desecration, and that, as a man of honour, he was bound to do all he could to protect her from the results of her disinterestedness.†
Chpt 1.7
- Lily felt really virtuous as she dispensed the sum in sops to her tradesmen, and the fact that a fresh order accompanied each payment did not lessen her sense of disinterestedness.†
Chpt 1.8
- She appears to regard their number and value as evidence of the disinterested affection of the contracting parties.†
Chpt 1.8
- Miss Stepney was not sufficiently familiar with the classic drama to have recalled in advance how bearers of bad tidings are proverbially received, but she now had a rapid vision of forfeited dinners and a reduced wardrobe as the possible consequence of her disinterestedness.†
Chpt 1.11
Definition:
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(disinterested) unaffected by self-interest