(n.) What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.
(n.) Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness.
(v. t.) To divest of interest or interested motives.
Example Sentences:
(1) Canonical discriminant function analysis of the relationship between these predictor variables on the first testing and whether participants (a) returned for retesting, (b) did not return because of apparent disinterest, or (c) did not return because of illness or death, revealed two significant canonical variates.
(2) It needed independent "trained professional disinterested prosecutors" in charge of prosecutions and military victims who did not get justice had civil courts available to them.
(3) He wasn't a disinterested witness: he had been a friend and colleague of Bron's for many years before their children Alexander Waugh and Liza Chancellor married.
(4) The most widely used source of drug information for doctors is the industry-sponsored Physicians' Desk Reference, which overrates the therapeutic value of Valium and Librium as compared to disinterested medical sources.
(5) Sales of PCs were down in the fourth quarter, reflecting customer disinterest and setting off alarm bells among investors that the future was not auspicious.
(6) Unless there is a clear articulation of the proposition to be put before the Australian people, and a timeframe in which to achieve it, we run the risk of the worst possible outcome – a campaign that runs out of steam due to disinterest and disillusionment.
(7) It is typical of the perverse misalliance that it contains a refusal to participate, with all the attendant disinterest and deadness and lack of creativity usually associated with that condition.
(8) The most plausible explanation for Kennedy’s disinterest in the question is that he believes it will be moot because all of the state bans will fall.
(9) Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has regained the interest of physicians and surgeons, including plastic surgeons, after some years of disinterest and suspicion on the part of many.
(10) That doesn't mean non-voting youths are disinterested in politics.
(11) A defective central thirst regulation mechanism was suspected as the dog was totally disinterested in drinking water despite the chronically elevated serum sodium concentration.
(12) Also threatened by the loss of this public ethos is the space that disinterested science and scholarship need in order to flourish.
(13) Health care providers must too often stand by helplessly as disinterested or malevolent relatives make these decisions, while caring, competent non-relatives are shut out of the decision-making process.
(14) A Christian humanist with a healthy respect for Islam, he was a member of the academic elite; yet he inveighed against academic professionalism, venturing into territories well outside his area of speciality, insisting always that the true intellectual's role must be that of the amateur, because it is only the amateur who is moved neither by the rewards nor the requirements of a career, and who is therefore capable of a disinterested engagement with ideas and values.
(15) I wear a hijab and that’s going to be a problem, but once one person is able to do that, it then allows other people to dream too.” Though the never-ending campaign cycle and tawdry political fighting can breed apathy and disinterest in the American political process, Omar’s family fought for political representation, engendering in Omar a deep enthusiasm and optimism about the importance of the vote.
(16) If governments are not to become dependent on “insider” corporations, with the exclusion of other voices, overpricing and grotesque corruption risks that entails, then the ironclad regulation of lobbying and the re-establishment of disinterested civil and public service capacity should now be on every democrat’s agenda.
(17) Officials have views but their professionalism lies in separating them from disinterested policy advice.
(18) The findings demonstrate generalized medical disinterest in the care of ill aged patients in institutions.
(19) They appeared disinterested, and their speech was characterized as lacking in fluency and clarity due to their difficulty in finding appropriate words, use of inappropriate expressions and inability to express ideas clearly.
(20) His appointment would take a project that has suffered due to the disinterest so far shown by the original Ghostbusters star Bill Murray in a headline-grabbing new direction.
Impartiality
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(2) We now look forward to a judicial process which will apply impartial analysis and clear legal standards."
(3) This is not about the BBC exercising its charter duties of impartiality, as they maintain.
(4) "We are also fully aware that the BBC has a duty to ensure impartiality in covering the general election.
(5) "The people of Scotland will be given all the information to make their decision … The most important thing is that impartiality can't be seen to be questioned."
(6) An ITV news presenter who has been subject to racist and sexist abuse for her decision not to wear a Remembrance Day poppy said she made her decision in order to be "neutral and impartial on-screen".
(7) The jurors' handbook for New York's southern district lists critical questions to ask potential jurors, such as whether they "have any personal interest in the case, or know of any reason why they cannot render an impartial verdict?"
(8) "I find it quite curious that it's Mark Thompson who is leading the charge about News Corp's plurality when the BBC always put their hands up and say we're impartial.
(9) Speakers, if anything, should be towards the people who are not in government, as actually John Bercow probably has done in the way that he has used urgent questions that we have found inconvenient.” The parliamentary website states: “The Speaker is the chief officer and highest authority of the House of Commons and must remain politically impartial at all times.
(10) The move follows criticism from the Conservative party that its presenter Lord Sugar's role as the government's enterprise tsar compromised the BBC's political impartiality .
(11) He added: "Our focus is on providing the highest quality, most impartial and balanced coverage so audiences have access to the information they need."
(12) Congress can take a simple step to restore confidence in the court’s impartiality and integrity: authorizing its judges to appoint lawyers to serve the public interest when novel legal issues come before it.
(13) "I hope in the future they will show a more sensitive and impartial view to those involved in such heartbreaking events and especially in the lead-up to potentially high-profile court cases."
(14) One, the police cannot be trusted for an impartial first account.
(15) The findings of this study further reinforce the image of the humanitarian system as one that, in breach of the humanitarian principle of impartiality, appears incapable of delivering assistance solely according to needs.
(16) Conservatives have written them; liberals have written them; impartial professionals have written them.
(17) A letter from Edwin Coe solicitors argues that any agreement between the DUP and the Conservatives would compromise the government’s independence and breach the reasonable expectation of the citizens of Northern Ireland, including McClean, that the government will act with rigorous impartiality.
(18) By making comments within a few hours of the death to the effect that police had no other choice but to shoot call into question the ability of Victoria police to conduct the investigation impartially and independently.” Cornelius earlier said he was giving more information than usual to ensure the public understood the full circumstances.
(19) The letter also points out that Sir Peter is not sitting as a judge trying litigation, nor conducting a statutory inquiry, and so has no legal duty to satisfy the tests of impartiality and independence that apply in such cases.
(20) He suggested that this was a political decision and said the NLRB had always been "anything but impartial".