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Usage examples for disinterested

1. As a matter of fact the proprietor of the Star was not entirely disinterested in his kindness. – One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

2. I really felt quite sorry when I said good- bye to so many gentlemen from whom I had received so much disinterested kindness. – Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle

3. The person who was most thoroughly convinced that Janet's grief was deep and real, was Mr. Pilgrim, who in general was not at all weakly given to a belief in disinterested feeling. – Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot