All 10 Uses
indifferent
in
Long Day's Journey into Night
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- JAMIE With a defensive air of weary indifference again.†
Act 1 *indifference = without interest
- MARY With a resentment that has a quality of being automatic and on the surface while inwardly she is indifferent.†
Act 2
- Lunch is ready, Ma'am, I went down to Mister Tyrone, like you ordered, and he said he'd come right away, but he kept on talking to that man, telling him of the time when — MARY Indifferently.†
Act 2indifferently = in a manner that is without interest
- She appears indifferent to the fact that their thoughts are not on what she is saying any more than her own are.†
Act 2indifferent = without interest
- She gives a little laugh of detached amusement-indifferently.†
Act 2indifferently = in a manner that is without interest
- MARY Indifferently.†
Act 2
- MARY Teasing indifferently.†
Act 2
- MARY Indifferently.†
Act 3
- Then with indifference.†
Act 3indifference = without interest
- MARY With indifferent casualness.†
Act 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(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."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)