Example Sentences

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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

If we were certain from the outset that Richard II and Julius Caesar were definitely right and Bolingbroke and Brutus unsympathetically wrong, we would hardly bother staying to the end.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012

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