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indifferent
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A Bend in the River
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- And yet, though Father Huismans knew so much about African religion and went to such trouble to collect his pieces, I never felt that he was concerned about Africans in any other way; he seemed indifferent to the state of the country.†
p. 62.1indifferent = without interest
- I envied him that indifference; and I thought, after I left him that day, that his Africa, of bush and river, was different from mine.†
p. 62.1 *
- It didn't worry me that he was self-absorbed, that he had been indifferent to the breakdown of one of his teachers, or that he scarcely seemed to take me in while he was talking to me.†
p. 62.4
- On the coast I used to grieve for people of our community who were like that, indifferent to what lay around them.†
p. 71.1
- During the empty, idle time, we had been indifferent to the bush; during the days of the rebellion it had depressed us.†
p. 95.1
- He lost the brightness and gaiety of the servant who knows that he will be looked after, that others will decide for him; and he lost what went with that brightness—the indifference to what had just happened, the ability to forget, the readiness for every new day.†
p. 108.1
- I had contrasted it with the indifference and withdrawal of village Africa.†
p. 230.5
- It was in this state of indifference and irresponsibility—like the lost Gloucester Road people Nazruddin had spoken about—that I became engaged to Kareisha.†
p. 241.1
- Indifferent to notice, indifferent to compassion or contempt, those faces were yet not vacant or passive or resigned.†
p. 269.4
- Indifferent to notice, indifferent to compassion or contempt, those faces were yet not vacant or passive or resigned.†
p. 269.4
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)