unsentimental

/ ˌʌnsɛntɪˈmɛntəl /

adjective

1. not tending to indulge the emotions excessively

   a frank and unsentimental account

Example Sentences

And the usually gruff and unsentimental Lord Fredrick Ashton was discussing wallpaper with Mrs. Clarke and cheerily picking baby names, and with a full moon coming on, too!

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Replete with Constructivist angles, it’s an unsentimental account of a woman who tells her fireman husband he isn’t the father of their newborn.

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Trier’s itchiness to get into that unsentimental fact isn’t fully scratched.

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Then, after a short silence, the music resumed, but now with the addition of Mr. Muhly on prepared piano, lending ineffable poignancy to strains of unsentimental emotionalism.

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While Holt’s departure from “Nightly News” was presented as his decision, NBC News is historically unsentimental when it comes to making talent transitions, always looking for the next generation.

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Related Words

• astute 
• hard-headed 
• hard-nosed 
• headstrong 
• obstinate 
• practical 
• pragmatic 
• rational 
• sensible 
• shrewd 
• sober