unsensitive
Americanadjective
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showing a lack of consideration or emotional sensitivity; insensitive to other people's feelings or needs.
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not physically sensitive; not reacting or responsive when stimulated or subjected to a particular treatment or process.
Example Sentences
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There are in the world a few unsensitive people for whom the mellow, wry blarney of Author Donn-Byrne has no meaning at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was what is understood by "a regular boy": a fine, manly little fellow, practical, unsensitive, hard-headed, and overflowing with life and vigor.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
Page 56, variation in spelling, unsensitive for insensitive, 'wounded and unsensitive.'.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose
The third was achieved by a boy of three,—a child, in general, unsensitive to music.
From Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
But a stability of purpose peculiar to unsensitive and egoistic young men kept Hazlitt to his quest.
From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben
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