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Can you provide an example? I'm not sure how one would use it improperly...

• andrewl 1y ago
  The short answer is that disinterested means unbiased, having no conflicts of interest, impartial. So a judge in a court should be disinterested, but not uninterested.
• WaltPurvis 1y ago
  It is often erroneously used when the writer means uninterested.
• FeteCommuniste 1y ago
  Using "disinterested" to mean "uninterested" has become more common over the past few decades, rather than using it in the older sense of "having no stake in the outcome, having no bias or partiality with respect to a conflict." An example would be saying that someone was "disinterested" in what was happening on TV, or in music that was playing.