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
It became true the moment he formulated his thought; Gulliver had described the Brobdingnagian maids-of-honour thus: and mentally and spiritually she corresponded—was unsensitive, limited, common.
From Widdershins by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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)
Page 56, variation in spelling, unsensitive for insensitive, 'wounded and unsensitive.'.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose
So all-sufficient is bare kindliness of tone and speech to the unsensitive nature.
From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Jackson, Helen Hunt
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