All 21 Uses
indifferent
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The Grass is Singing
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- This conflict showed itself in his attitude towards Marston: half hard and indifferent, half subtly deferential.†
p. 8.3indifferent = without interest
- The man stared back, expressionless, indifferent.†
p. 9.5
- He seemed indifferent as to where she might be lying.†
p. 10.9
- Charlie seemed indifferent, even relieved; he had been thinking there was no need for a manager now that Dick would not come back.†
p. 25.3
- His wife treated him with a cold indifference.†
p. 30.4 *
- Her parents were good friends because of this sorrow for a short while: Mary could remember thinking that it was an ill wind that did no one good; because the two dead children were both so much older than she that they were no good to her as playmates, and the loss was more than compensated by the happiness of living in a house where there were suddenly no quarrels, with a mother who wept, but who had lost that terrible hard indifference.†
p. 31.4
- Reaction from the strained state of the last few months was a dulled acquiescence, a numbness, that was almost indifference.†
p. 51.5
- They never cease complaining about their unhappy lot, having to deal with natives who are so exasperatingly indifferent to the welfare of the white man, working only to please themselves.†
p. 82.2
- "Gives you something to do," he replied, with that new brutal indifference, without even looking at her.†
p. 105.9
- "The boss is better?" he asked with hostile indifference.†
p. 123.1
- But she did make the effort, in spite of her indifference.†
p. 154.6
- This time there was no row over a broken dish or a badly-washed plate: quite simply, he wanted to go home; and Mary was too indifferent to fight.†
p. 160.1
- But she was not quite as indifferent as she had been.†
p. 162.3
- Moses was indifferent and calm against her as if she did not exist, except in so far as he obeyed her orders; Dick, formerly so good-natured and easy to please, now complained continually over her bad management; for she would nag at the boy in that high nervous voice of hers over a chair that was two inches out of its right place, and fail to notice that the ceiling was shrouded in cobwebs.†
p. 169.2
- The doctor's manner was bluff, easy, but at bottom indifferent; he had learned, after years in a farming district, when to cut his losses as a doctor.†
p. 179.4
- "Oranges finished," he repeated, in that tone of surly indifference, but with a note of self-satisfaction, of conscious power that took Charlie's breath away.†
p. 203.6
- Then her face, from being tormented, became slowly blank and indifferent.†
p. 214.7
- And he began to understand with a horrified pity, her utter indifference to Dick; she had shut out everything that conflicted with her actions, that would revive the code she had been brought up to follow.†
p. 215.2
- He heard the blank indifference of her voice: saw that she was speaking to Dick without seeing him.†
p. 217.8
- He pulled out the weapon, looked at it, and simply tossed it down beside Mary, suddenly indifferent, for a new need possessed him.†
p. 237.7
- And this was his final moment of triumph, a moment so perfect and complete that it took the urgency from thoughts of escape, leaving him indifferent.†
p. 238.6
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)