Word: disinteresting
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More than likely you will find it a batty town, a town of extraordinary sophistication, of tension and irritability, of intellectuality and pseudo-intellectuality, of a haunted sort of joie de vivre, of disinterest, of anonymity, and, also, of lust, gentleness, altruism, and a peculiar brand of human affection. Some gray day when no one seems to care, stop by the tarnished statue of Hans Christian Anderson in Central Park. His nose, you'll see, his ancient bronze nose, is shinier than a new penny, twice as bright as the rest of him. It got that way from constant loving...
Dietz denied any intention of trying to muster the necessary 300 voting members by next Wednesday. But he expressed disappointment at Harvard students' disinterest in the Coop's affffairs...
...Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech in the original Greek." But stubby young Sir Thomas delivered "a heavy slogger" to Shelley's middle, and the poet turned tail and ran. Not many years later, Gronow reports with disinterest, young Styles was driven mad by fleas and heat during the Peninsular War and cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor...
...NELSON ROCKEFELLER was a brave convention figure; but to remain a major Republican power, he would probably have to win re-election as Governor of New York in 1966, and that might be a chancy matter in view of the disinterest he has displayed in his statehouse chores for the last couple of years...
...FRANCISCO, July 13--Thousands of delegates, alternates, and visitors at the 28th Republican National Convention made the six-mile trip to the Cow Palace today to listen to a full bill of bounteous and turgid oratory. An obvious disinterest pervaded the opening session of the convention...