unsentimental
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In a four-star review, external, the Times noted how Heaton's "casually funny" and "deceptively piercing" latest album "again confirms his gift for dissecting human weakness with an unsentimental but humane eye".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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
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
But I suppose I was a quite unsentimental young man in many ways and I was always on the lookout for some material where I could a rattle the public’s cage a bit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
But I guess New York City’s going to give me an abundance of opportunities to be cool and unsentimental.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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