Suppose a friend said to you, “I know you’re disinterested, so I want to ask you a question presently.” Then he didn’t say anything. Would you be momentarily nonplussed? But using a meaning on its way ...

For some time now, the widespread misuse of the word disinterested has been a bee in the bonnet of every poor soul who can’t seem to stop themselves from getting worked up about lexical minutiae.

Just when you gird your loins to pen an eloquent article about the fine distinctions of language, threading your way among the thickets of the prescriptivist debate to request that we all pause to ...

They sound like words and opposites, but they are not: interested and disinterested. Another related one is ‘uninterested’, which is antonymous to ‘interested’. So, what is the difference between ...

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