insensitive
adjective
deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous.
insensitively
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a word derived from
insensitive.
Example Sentences
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The ombudsman found the claim had been handled "insensitively" and thus "compounded the family's distress".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
Viserys is an even-keeled ruler but even the nobles somewhat insensitively acknowledge that Rhaenys would have served the realm equally as well by dubbing her the Queen Who Never Was.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
The curious case of Brandon Lee, an enigmatic 16-year-old who in 1993 arrived at Bearsden Academy near Glasgow, is told twice in the generally amusing, if perhaps too insensitively lighthearted, Scottish documentary “My Old School.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
He said he acted insensitively but that many of the allegations were inaccurate.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2018
I wrote to Albus, describing, perhaps insensitively, the wonders of my journey, from narrow escapes from chimaeras in Greece to the experiments of the Egyptian alchemists.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
