unsentimental
adjective
un·sen·ti·men·tal
ˌən-ˌsen-tə-ˈmen-tᵊl 
: not marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism : not sentimental
an unsentimental person
unsentimental remarks
unsentimentally
adverb
Examples of unsentimental in a Sentence
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The way the writer was killed was so anticlimactic, so unsentimental.
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Apr. 2024
Surprisingly, her memoir is a passionate call to defend society from privileged elites who have elevated personal over public interest—a damning and unsentimental indictment that seems almost socialist in its zeal.
—Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
The eye with which Avilés surveys this unwieldy human and animal circus is at once strikingly unsentimental and sweepingly egalitarian.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
The spiky, unsentimental writings of Diana Athill refuse to romanticize emotional discontent.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
Even the show’s notoriously unsentimental star showed cracks in the veneer.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2024
The posts are disarmingly blunt, wickedly unsentimental, weirdly moving, bizarrely punctuated.
—Rachel Sugar, Bon Appétit, 7 Dec. 2023
His rising up the ranks and unsentimental attitude toward Amazon is reflected in his approach to growing the company, where he’s largely tried to keep it on the path his predecessor built while pruning back on some of Amazon’s overbuilt investments.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
Sessions deteriorated and went missing over time, private pressings of LPs went into personal collections and never reappeared, and entire label catalogs were lost to moldy basements and unsentimental relatives.
—Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Apr. 2024
Surprisingly, her memoir is a passionate call to defend society from privileged elites who have elevated personal over public interest—a damning and unsentimental indictment that seems almost socialist in its zeal.
—Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
The eye with which Avilés surveys this unwieldy human and animal circus is at once strikingly unsentimental and sweepingly egalitarian.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
The spiky, unsentimental writings of Diana Athill refuse to romanticize emotional discontent.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
Even the show’s notoriously unsentimental star showed cracks in the veneer.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2024
The posts are disarmingly blunt, wickedly unsentimental, weirdly moving, bizarrely punctuated.
—Rachel Sugar, Bon Appétit, 7 Dec. 2023
His rising up the ranks and unsentimental attitude toward Amazon is reflected in his approach to growing the company, where he’s largely tried to keep it on the path his predecessor built while pruning back on some of Amazon’s overbuilt investments.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
Sessions deteriorated and went missing over time, private pressings of LPs went into personal collections and never reappeared, and entire label catalogs were lost to moldy basements and unsentimental relatives.
—Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
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“Unsentimental.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unsentimental. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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