unsympathetically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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There’s a beach right in town, Corbyn’s Cove, but when I showed up with a towel around my neck and goggles in hand, the lifeguard shook his head and said, quite unsympathetically, I felt, “Closed.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
New York Post columnist Kyle Smith wrote, presciently and unsympathetically, “Smollett has not been nailed, and Chicago wants him nailed. He will get nailed.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 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
“Lie down with dogs, get up with rabies,” he tells me unsympathetically.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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