unsympathetic
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Definition of unsympathetic
: not given to, marked by, or arising from sympathy : not sympathetic an unsympathetic bystander an unsympathetic review
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Synonyms & Antonyms for unsympathetic
Synonyms
callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless, desensitized, hard, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, heartless, indurate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, ironhearted, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, soulless, stony (also stoney), take-no-prisoners, thick-skinned, uncharitable, unfeeling, unmerciful, unsparing
Antonyms
charitable, compassionate, humane, kindhearted, kindly, merciful, sensitive, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted
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Well before his election, Mr. Macron displayed a penchant for sounding dismissive and unsympathetic when talking to unemployed people, labor union members and retirees. — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, "That’s ‘Mr. President’ to You: Macron Scolds French Student," 19 June 2018 Within a week of my return, a customer service agent at South African Airways received an angry note from me, citing the airline’s outdated planes and unsympathetic flight attendants. — Fortune, "The Best and Worst Airlines and Airports of 2018: AirHelp," 6 June 2018 What we’re left with is just Julia, a random, boring, unsympathetic woman with a thing stuck in her head. — Jason Kehe, WIRED, "Sci-Fi Invades Netflix—as They Both Invade Your Home," 9 July 2018 But left populists are not entirely unsympathetic to economic nationalism or stronger border controls. — Ted Rall, WSJ, "The Progressives Who Don’t Hate Trump," 2 July 2018 There the politically unsympathetic owner of a vast ranch showed his decency by loaning horses and men for the trek over the Andes. — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, "The partisan world of Pablo Neruda," 2 July 2018 O'Dowd also stretches himself in a complex, and often unsympathetic, role as a man spiraling out of control and using infidelity as his coping mechanism. — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, "Andie MacDowell scores a comeback role in the dark family drama 'Love After Love'," 5 Apr. 2018 Rick Kortes’ wife, Mary, now 47, also was unsympathetic. — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Father whose son died in hit-and-run softened his harsh opinion of driver found dead," 18 June 2018 His economy is desperately dependent on a life-support machine operated by unsympathetic people in Beijing. — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, "With North Korea, What’s in It for Donald?," 8 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unsympathetic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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