All 17 Uses of
indifferent
in
The Mayor of Casterbridge
- His measured, springless walk was the walk of the skilled countryman as distinct from the desultory shamble of the general labourer; while in the turn and plant of each foot there was, further, a dogged and cynical indifference personal to himself, showing its presence even in the regularly interchanging fustian folds, now in the left leg, now in the right, as he paced along.†
Chpt 1
- She bowed her head with absolute indifference.†
Chpt 1
- The waiter glanced indifferently up and down the street.†
Chpt 6
- His dark pupils—which always seemed to have a red spark of light in them, though this could hardly be a physical fact—turned indifferently round under his dark brows until they rested on her figure.†
Chpt 10
- The tinge of indifference which had at first been visible in the Scotchman now disappeared.†
Chpt 12
- His well-known haughty indifference to the society of womankind, his silent avoidance of converse with the sex, contributed a piquancy to what would otherwise have been an unromantic matter enough.†
Chpt 13
- Indeed, comparatively indifferent as Elizabeth-Jane was to dress, unless for some temporary whim or purpose, her eyes were arrested by the artistic perfection of the lady's appearance.†
Chpt 20
- Absolute indifference had taken the place of irritability; and his coldness was such that it encouraged her to departure, even more than hot temper could have done.
Chpt 21 *indifference = lack of interest
- She had quickened them, and now she was indifferent to the achievement.†
Chpt 23
- Donald appeared not to see her at all, and answered her wise little remarks with curtly indifferent monosyllables, his looks and faculties hanging on the woman who could boast of a more Protean variety in her phases, moods, opinions, and also principles, than could Elizabeth.†
Chpt 25
- The local atmosphere was everything to him; the atmospheres of other countries a matter of indifference.†
Chpt 26
- He seemed disappointed to hear of Lucetta's absence and though he nodded with outward indifference he went away handling his beard with a nettled mien.†
Chpt 28
- Henchard turned slightly and saw that the corner was Jopp, his old foreman, now employed elsewhere, to whom, though he hated him, he had gone for lodgings because Jopp was the one man in Casterbridge whose observation and opinion the fallen corn-merchant despised to the point of indifference.†
Chpt 32
- Farfrae asked this and the other questions in the comfortably indifferent tone of one whom the matter very remotely concerned.†
Chpt 34
- Jopp indifferently expressed his willingness.†
Chpt 36
- "Not much," he said indifferently.†
Chpt 36
- Henchard observed him indifferently, and shook his head.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
-
(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."