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Uninvolved   /ənɪnvˈɔlvd/   Listen
Uninvolved

adjective
1.
Not involved.
2.
Showing lack of emotional involvement.  Synonyms: degage, detached.  "She may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive" , "An uninvolved bystander"






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"Uninvolved" Quotes from Famous Books



... the subject of their depredations, they did not always confine their brutality within that scope. They were habituated to consider wounds and bludgeons and stabbing as the obvious mode of surmounting every difficulty. Uninvolved in the debilitating routine of human affairs, they frequently displayed an energy which, from every impartial observer, would have extorted veneration. Energy is perhaps of all qualities the most valuable; and a just political system would possess the means of extracting from it, thus circumstanced, ...
— Caleb Williams - Things As They Are • William Godwin

... the writer here to mean it, remains in its native disseminated shape. From every realized amount of fact some other fact is absent, as being uninvolved. "There is nowhere more of it consecutively, perhaps, than appears upon this present page." There is, indeed, to put it otherwise, no more one all-enveloping fact than there is one all-enveloping spire in an endlessly growing spiral, and no more one all-generating fact than there is one ...
— Memories and Studies • William James

... "I must oppose your plan. It's quite unfair to two innocent and uninvolved parties. What have we done that we should be exempt ...
— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon



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