as in disregard
lack of interest or concern
an alarming indifference toward the well-being of his own children
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All Houston required to bridge that $121.1 million payroll gap was seven games, a couple of garbage cans and a pragmatic indifference toward bending the rules.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2024
This idea led us to awe, that mix of terror and wonder often associated with nature’s monolithic indifference and incomprehensibility.
—Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
Our faiths tell us to reject indifference and demand justice; to choose life over death, and love over fear.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
The season repeatedly indicts the Milwaukee police for its apparent indifference to Dahmer’s victims, many of whom were Black or brown and gay, and excoriates true-crime aficionados for their callousness toward the victims and their families.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Indifference.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indifference. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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