How to Use insensitive in a Sentence

insensitive

adjective

• It was insensitive of her to say that.
• He's just a rude, insensitive jerk.
• That's the insensitive part in all of this.
  — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
• That for me is the insensitive bit.
  — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
• The first backing tracks were good but too on-the-nose, too insensitive.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
• This may sound a little insensitive, but bear with me.
  — Rebecca Fearn, SELF, 10 Feb. 2026
• That’s not meant to be insensitive to anybody, that’s a fact.
  — Dallas News, 26 July 2022
• Or sexist, insensitive, and, at the very least, a bit out-of-touch?
  — Lori Nickel, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
• My grown kids still act like kids — selfish and insensitive.
  — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2026
• His comments over the years have struck many as insensitive.
  — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 15 Sep. 2025
• My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Many of the quips are insensitive and tough to watch just two years after the show ended.
  — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
• Being poor does not make one a rube or insensitive to talent.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
• Even a great, loving kid can still do insensitive, clueless or even mean things.
  — Braden Bell, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• Johnson would’ve kept his insensitive thoughts to himself if didn’t want to cause a fuss.
  — Ashlee Banks, Essence, 18 Mar. 2021
• This dumb contest reeks of the clueless, insensitive ways of the past.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 July 2026
• No one wants to be labeled as racist or racially insensitive.
  — David Aldridge, New York Times, 4 July 2026
• Names are only changed if a storm is so deadly or costly that reusing it would be insensitive.
  — Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
• The footwear choice was seen by some as insensitive since the trip was aimed at comforting those who'd just lost house and home.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2017
• Do not impose your insensitive and harsh judgments on the backs of victims.
  — Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 12 June 2017
• And for someone who doesn't jog at all, those running shorts could seem insensitive and even cruel.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2022
• The singer wasn't the only one who called out Snapchat for being insensitive.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 15 Mar. 2018
• The school has since said, handling of the decision came across as insensitive.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2022
• Her daughters still hear racial slurs at school, and students make insensitive comments about their hair.
  — Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
• Mean and insensitive behavior by kids is nothing new; some young people join in to be part of the group.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021
• The gesture seemed to go over well in the room but was widely panned as insensitive to those who were suffering.
  — Chris Megerian and Colleen Long, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
• Some teachers in Fairfax found the contents of the email to be a bit insensitive.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• His play, which might have been smashed by the insensitive or botched by the fatuous, has fallen into expert hands.
  — Claudia Cassidy, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2022
• Providers have no reason to reduce costs for price-insensitive customers.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
• This isn’t the first time high-profile coaches have been in trouble for insensitive comments.
  — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2023