Both Uses
apathy
in
The Monkey's Paw
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- But the days passed, and expectation gave place to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled, apathy.†
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- The old man, with an unspeakable sense of relief at the failure of the talisman, crept back to his bed, and a minute or two afterward the old woman came silently and apathetically beside him.†
apathetically = without interest or enthusiasm
Definitions:
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(1)
(apathy) lack of interest and enthusiasm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)