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Doesn’t mean they’re bad people, or dumb, or unperceptive or even uncreative.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2013

It is, then, an almost wholly unrewarding hour – thin, repetitious, unperceptive – for viewer and participant alike.

From The Guardian • May 12, 2010

George Santayana bore Uncle James Sturgis a grudge, simply for "his commonplace talk, his hurry, his bustling unperceptive manners."

From Time Magazine Archive

The trouble is that Federov, an unperceptive man, is not a very good muser.

From Time Magazine Archive

One's study is also one's office; boys keep dropping in, and, when I have an unperceptive guest, I have to hold interviews with boys wherever I can—in passages and behind doors.

From The Upton Letters by Benson, Arthur Christopher