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Idiom

couldn't care less

Meaning

To not care at all; to have no interest or concern; to be apathetic.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I couldn't care less about what they think of me.”

“He asked if I wanted to watch the game, but I told him I couldn't care less about sports.”

“She realized that after years of trying to please her critics, she truly couldn't care less about their approval anymore.”

Examples

simple

“I couldn't care less about what they think of me.”

contextual

“He asked if I wanted to watch the game, but I told him I couldn't care less about sports.”

complex

“She realized that after years of trying to please her critics, she truly couldn't care less about their approval anymore.”

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