Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Uninteresting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Uninteresting.
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- verb Present participle of
disinterest . - adjective obsolete
uninteresting ;dull
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Examples
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As boring and disinteresting as I found Battle for the Cowl and all of the associated one shots, I must say that the relaunch is pretty strong.
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For my part, I see the pop musical period during my teenage years (1978-1983, let's say) as especially disinteresting, and it wasn't until college, when I discovered "college radio," that this seemed to change for me (say 1985 or 1986).
The hole in the hole in the sky. nightwitch 2008
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I find the disinteresting children in the video quite fascinating.
Archive 2009-05-01 Glenn Dunks 2009
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Yet she used to lament that certain writers of the first class, who were capable of exalting virtue, and of putting vice out of countenance, too generally employed themselves in works of imagination only, upon subjects merely speculative, disinteresting and unedifying, from which no useful moral or example could be drawn.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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If anything, knowing how much money a virtual world is making seems profoundly disinteresting to me.
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To quote one boy's opinion of nature readers, "The nature you get in books is the most disinteresting subject there is."
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Prayer, and receive the Sacrament every day; because they do not subject and submit themselves wholly and entirely to him that hath Light, nor deny and conquer themselves, nor give up themselves totally to God, with a perfect divesting and disinteresting of themselves: In a word, till the Soul be purified in the Fire of Inward Pain, it will never get to a State of
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Dmowski -- may strike up a friendly accord with Russia, abandoning definitely and formally all claims to so-called historic Poland, disinteresting themselves in all the Baltic problems which concern
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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Almost all the life-writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux [1], are indeed strange insipid creatures; and yet I had rather read the worst of them, than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's, or the other's life of Boileau, where there is such a dull, heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting passages, that it makes their method quite nauseous.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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What has not the benevolent reader had to suffer at the hands of the so-called impartial historian, who, wholly disinterested and disinteresting, writes with as mechanic an industry and as little emotion as he would have brought to the weaving of calico or the digging of potatoes, under other circumstances!
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855
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