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Recent Examples of insensitivity
Does their lack of kindness grant you permission to respond with equal insensitivity or even cruelty?
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Michael Isaacson, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
Your son’s insensitivity to your feelings is appalling.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
In the email, Marrero accused Youngquist of wanting his job, creating a toxic work environment, undermining DPS leaders, and showing racial insensitivity toward staff.
—Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
And as the fading film star Masha, Eileen Bowman is the absolute queen of comic vanity and clueless insensitivity.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
Meghan Markle was accused of insensitivity by a British tabloid after filming a video from her car seat less than a mile from the tunnel where Princess Diana died.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Interestingly, the lifetimes achieved now surpass typical timescales for cosmic ray impacts, suggesting some level of insensitivity by cat qubits to such events.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
In an era where automation underpins everything from customer service to internal HR processes, the line between efficiency and insensitivity has never been thinner.
—Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insensitivity
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That means uprooting institutionalized callousness and redefining what counts as efficiency, innovation and value.—
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The ego, the hardness, the … callousness of anything that might be on the heart or the mind had literally just melted away.—
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The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.—
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Essentially, they’re used to meeting an expectation where rudeness and thoughtlessness aren’t tolerated—because their older sister made sure of that.—
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Maybe the symptoms of his cognitive decline are inextricable from what seemed to you to be his general self-absorption and thoughtlessness.—
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Large roof windows maximize natural light, and the interior decor makes use of coated plywood and glass to offset the coldness of the concrete.—
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However, colors can also pull out negative emotions in people, such as defiance (red), coldness (blue), fear (yellow), and boredom (green).—
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China has gained, not suffered, from this obduracy.—
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Related: ‘Neglected diseases’ are anything but neglected by the billion-plus people living with them One possible reason for this obduracy is that noma begins as a dental disease, and dental diseases have long been underappreciated global health concerns.—
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Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, perhaps born of the clarity of unimaginable loss.—
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Finally, impact strength assesses a material’s ability to absorb sudden shocks without shattering, highlighting that the hardness alone doesn’t always mean toughness.—
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Of course, the brand is known for its classic coolness and quality, especially since it’s made of 99 percent cotton for total comfort.—
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What does coolness mean right now?—
Cite this Entry
“Insensitivity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insensitivity. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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