Example Sentences

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It was stuck full of arrows like a porcupine, and trotted along with a strange look of unconcernedness.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

She had a show of unconcernedness, but her fingers twitched and drummed and she licked her lips with her scarlet tongue.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

In a vague and unexpressed way, as they show again and again by their cheerfulness and unconcernedness, hosts of men in this war have laid hold on this law.

From Thoughts on religion at the front by Talbot, N. S. (Neville Stuart)

Her air of unconcernedness at length proved too much for his patience, and so it came about that Madeline received by post a letter addressed in Clifford's hand.

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George

This unconcernedness never failed to provoke laughter, even from those who administered rebukes to him.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas