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uncaring

  • a word derived from care.

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Günter is attracted to Freud’s science of the mind because he believes that it alleviates unhappiness, but he is learning that the analyst can be distant and dictatorial, like some all-knowing but uncaring deity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

He cultivated renown as a Wall Street wizard yet projected an air of uncaring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Unaware and uncaring that there’s an option to be anything else, and just swimming, until the thought is introduced in your mind that that’s somehow wrong to do?

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

"It was a very uncaring response. I wanted support to get a non-manual job."

From BBC • May 14, 2025

I said — and there was no question in my flat, uncaring voice.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer