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.
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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
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 Walter Bagehot
Page 56, variation in spelling, unsensitive for insensitive, 'wounded and unsensitive.'.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming
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 Fannie Hurst
The exalted soul of the girl cast a spell which even HIS unsensitive spirit could keenly feel, and something stirred in his breast—the latent sense of affectionate, protecting fatherhood.
From Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch by Helen Reimensnyder Martin
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