unsentimental
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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She was 14 in 1958 when she was cast in “The Donna Reed Show,” a comparatively unsentimental family comedy in which she provided teenage female energy of an unusually reflective sort as Mary Stone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Bird-watchers are tense, competitive, selfish, shifty, dishonest, distrusting, boorish, pedantic, unsentimental, arrogant and - above all, envious" he wrote.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
But I suppose I was a quite unsentimental young man in many ways and I was always on the lookout for some material where I could a rattle the public’s cage a bit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
It all makes for an atypically clear and unsentimental evocation of wartime displacement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
They had to investigate the charges against me, but the assignment was their unsentimental affirmation that their belief in me was unbroken.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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