unsentimental
Britishadjective
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There’s a whole trade association for these people, the National Association of Senior Move Managers, and its members are entirely unsentimental about the job, in the best way.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
"Bird-watchers are tense, competitive, selfish, shifty, dishonest, distrusting, boorish, pedantic, unsentimental, arrogant and - above all, envious" he wrote.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
As would “Little Bear Ridge Road,” Samuel D. Hunter’s savagely unsentimental study of an estranged aunt and nephew picking through the wreckage of their family history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Sam Sacks highlights the author’s “rigorously achieved style, which is stripped down, dryly unsentimental and keenly attuned to the tensions present in families and friendships.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
And the usually gruff and unsentimental Lord Fredrick Ashton was discussing wallpaper with Mrs. Clarke and cheerily picking baby names, and with a full moon coming on, too!
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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