unsensitive
Americanadjective
-
showing a lack of consideration or emotional sensitivity; insensitive to other people's feelings or needs.
-
not physically sensitive; not reacting or responsive when stimulated or subjected to a particular treatment or process.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
America is not a country sensitive to taxes; no great country has perhaps ever been so unsensitive in this respect; certainly she is far less sensitive than England.
From The English Constitution by Bagehot, Walter
What he wanted he went after with a cold and unsensitive directness that no newspapers had been courageous enough to characterise.
From The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
But a stability of purpose peculiar to unsensitive and egoistic young men kept Hazlitt to his quest.
From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben
The Englishman, with his somewhat unsensitive feelers, is apt, in all good faith and unconsciousness, to criticise American ways to the American with much more freedom than he would criticise French ways to a Frenchman.
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
