insensate
adjective
not endowed with sensation; inanimate.
insensately
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a word derived from
insensate.
Example Sentences
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Although not a betting man howls out the odds, And no ring of mad backers—like gallery "gods"—- About us insensately bellows.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 by Various
All nature seemed glad—cruelly, mockingly, insensately glad—lightsome, jubilant.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
Far from being satisfied with words and tone, which were correctness itself, Io was insensately exasperated.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Oh! doesn't it all seem too insensately brutal?
From Mufti by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
The dancers' ranks were thinned; but those who remained, gyrated as insensately as ever.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
