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• He pretended an air of indifference that he'd never assumed before.From the entry pretend
• When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.From the entry tenderness
• Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.From the entry temper
• The play was scored as defensive indifference.From the entry defensive indifference
• He assumed an air of indifference.From the entry assume
• He was poed by her indifference.From the entry poed
• “Quiet luxury” is a kabuki performance of moneyed ease and indifference.2023 October 7, Robert Armstrong, Lauren Indvik, “How to look rich”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry quiet luxury
• In order of display, the kaomojis show happiness, indifference, love, dissatisfaction, and anger.2018, Xuanyi Chew, “Basic Facial Detection”, in Go Machine Learning Projects: Eight Projects Demonstrating End-to-End Machine Learning and…. From the entry kaomoji
• History is littered with our indifference—dodo birds, great auks, 24-rayed sunstars, dusky seaside sparrows, Bernard’s wolves.2015, M. R. O’Connor, “Introduction”, in Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, New…. From the entry Bernard's wolf
• A laissez-faire style, characterized by passive indifference about the task and subordinates, is essentially a nonstyle.2008, Montgomery Van Wart, Leadership in Public Organizations: An Introduction, page 274. From the entry nonstyle
• He attacked "transnational economic elites" and "globocrats" for their seeming indifference to national borders.2006, Michele Wucker, Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting it Right, PublicAffairs…. From the entry globocrat
• Even-mindedness means being free from indifference as well as from attachment and aversion.2004, Lorne Ladner, The Lost Art of Compassion. From the entry even-mindedness
• We know our school system is beset by mayhem and indifference.1996 February 26, Michael Tomasky, “Kids Say the Darnedest Things”, in New York Magazine. From the entry mud wrestling
• With indifference befitting a scholar, Lu Yu does not divulge the menus.1996, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Millennium, Touchstone Books, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry Hangchow
• Dropping one's anger and pretending indifference does not make one objective, only acceptable.1980 February 9, Charley Shively, “Radical History: Not Radical Enough”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 12. From the entry pretend
• However, an implication floats over the proactive, constructive intent of the phrase: its element of distance, coolness, indifference.2023 September 12, John McWhorter, “What Is 'It Is What It Is'?”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Sep 2023. From the entry it is what it is
• Feigning indifference, Stacey strolled quickly toward the batwings.2016 July 31, James Clay, Hard Stone, Robert Hale Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry batwing
• The transaction is not one of indifference to sin, or obliterative of the distinction between righteousness and unrighteousness.2015, Horatius Bonar, edited by Terry Kulakowski, The Everlasting Righteousness, page 47. From the entry obliterative
• The prevalent attitude was at best one of indifference or of inclination to kick into the long grass.2011, P. G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights. From the entry kick into the long grass
• The blasé personality develops such an acute consciousness of being assailed by form that it develops a defence mechanism of indifference.2007, Chris Rojek, “Georg Simmel”, in Tim Edwards, editor, Cultural Theory, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry blasé
• I was nonplussed, I stared at my teacher, never before had his swollen face seemed so replete with indifference, stone ataraxy.1993, Will Self, My Idea Of Fun. From the entry ataraxy
• Convex preferences may have indifference curves that exhibit “flat spots,” while strictly convex preferences have indifference curves that are strictly rotund.1992, Hal R. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis, 3rd edition, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN, pages 96-97. From the entry rotund
• While some Yanks treated contrabands with a degree of equity or benevolence, the more typical response was indifference, contempt, or cruelty.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 497. From the entry contraband
• They had been selected and arranged with a dull, bovine indifference to any meaning that any of them might have.1988 October 10, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry bovine
• Then they wonder why their concern becomes indifference.1982, George R[obert] Bach, Laura Torbet, “Balance: Caring on an Even Keel”, in A Time for Caring, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN…. From the entry uncareworthy
• She wouldn't lose him without a struggle: his aloofness and indifference set a challenge which she could not resist.1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 49. From the entry aloofness
• His Slav features regarded me with the wooden indifference he would have shown to an insect crawling the wall.1944 August, Blue Book magazine. From the entry crawl
• Their indifference, however, sharpened to hostility in regard to the Chinese, against whom they seemed to nourish a special grudge.1933, Ada Elizabeth Jones Chesterton, Young China and New Japan. From the entry facultize
• I respect and applaud your indifference to fine poetry when you can contemplate the meretricious charms of this young person.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC. From the entry meretricious
• It may be that she still resented his indifference to those early struggles which, even now, she shuddered to recall.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry penury
• She bore the desertion with philosophical indifference.1911, Hector Hugh Munro, The Schartz-Metterklume Method. From the entry philosophical
• A handful of courageous Americans, associated under the name of the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC), took it on themselves to set right their country's indifference.2025 May 31, Magdalena Miecznicka, “Intelligentsia on the run”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry ERC
• Pervasive postdemocratic attitudes and political indifference have enabled Britta Söldner and her business partner Babak Hamwi to develop a new business model.2019, Anne Fuchs, “Epilogue: Presentist Dystopias or the Case for Environmental Humanities”, in Precarious Times (Signale: Modern German…. From the entry post-democratic
• The rich world’s indifference to the despoliation of the environment in pursuit of short-term economic gain is rooted in a wider problem.2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry myopic
• Those circumstances may help us understand what was negative-the incognition, the indifference, and the neglect-in Australian attitudes and conduct over a full century.2014, William S. Livingston, Wm. Roger Louis (editors), Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands Since the First World War, page 152. From the entry incognition
• WikiLeaks might have provided a pressure valve for those agents who were terribly worried about what might happen and frustrated by their superiors' seeming indifference.2010 October 15, Los Angeles Times. From the entry pressure valve
• Gone was the gleam of desire, and the teasingly provocative remarks, and Alexa realised the truth in the saying that indifference was death.2009, Sharon Kendrick, The Desert Princes Bundle: The Sheikh's English Bride. From the entry icy
• Over the violence and the proud loyalties, over the sold-out-ness and the cruel indifference, there is light reclothing us in a kind of strange innocence.2007, Michael P. Knowles, The Folly of Preaching: Models and Methods. From the entry loyalty

Meaning of indifference

1. noun The state of being indifferent.
2. noun Unbiased impartiality.
3. noun Unemotional apathy.

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Questions about indifference in a sentence

How do you use indifference in a sentence?

Indifference is used as a noun. For example: “His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she felt no empathy for the bullied.”

What is a short sentence with indifference?

“He assumed an air of indifference.”

What does indifference mean?

Indifference means the state of being indifferent.