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
Even over the mound of her dead ambitions, which grave she had dug with the fingers of her heart, Hattie could walk now with unsensitive feet.
From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie
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)
Not because you’re inept or unsensitive or anything stupid— It’s because there’s something they want to say to me—a message they want to give to me alone.
From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes
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
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