unsympathetically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Mama, as the stern but loving matriarch, is a stock character, and Sissy is written unsympathetically and almost exclusively speaks in the tenor of a whine.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
And Hopper superbly manages the assignment of a character who seems both entitled to sympathy and unsympathetically entitled.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022
When she was hit by a car while biking to work, her father unsympathetically said, “Get up, everything is fine,” and sent her on her way.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 19, 2022
So it was little comfort when an Uzbek guard unsympathetically quipped the other day: “You can’t stay here forever.”
From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2021
He wore loud ties, and said outrageous things without the slightest apparent awareness of how they might sound if repeated unsympathetically.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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