All 6 Uses of
indifferent
in
The Good Earth
- "Will you have more?" asked the boy indifferently.†
Chpt 1 *
- "There is a way when men are too rich," said the man, and he was silent for a time and then as though he had said nothing he added indifferently, "Well, work again," and was gone into the night.†
Chpt 13
- And then he asked the keeper of the hot water shop the meaning of the thing he had seen, and the man, who was old and shriveled with the steam rising continually about him out of the copper cauldrons of his trade, answered with indifference.†
Chpt 14
- And she answered indifferently, as though it were nothing to her this way or that, "Aye, beaten or carried to a man's bed, as the whim was, and not to one man's only but to any that might desire her that night, and the young lords bickered and bartered with each other for this slave or that and said, 'Then if you tonight, I tomorrow,' and when they were all alike wearied of a slave the men servants bickered and bartered for what the young lords left, and this before a slave was out of…†
Chpt 14
- "Hither and thither," said the woman indifferently.†
Chpt 16
- "Oh, the land!" answered the man with indifference, and then as a customer came in he rose and called as he went, "I have heard it is for sale, except the piece where the family are buried for these six generations," and he went his way.†
Chpt 16
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."