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

Bayless is far from the only broadcaster to be accused of insensitively following the death or serious injury of sports stars.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2023

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

Ms. Lovelace herself ultimately faced allegations, including from her only Black employee, that she treated staff insensitively.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2021

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