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Recent Examples of inconsiderate Everyone seemed incredibly selfish and inconsiderate. Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 31 July 2025 Taking too many is poor etiquette and inconsiderate to other shoppers. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2025 Carry-on rules exist for a reason and deliberately ignoring the rules is both rude and inconsiderate to everyone else who is. Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025 While her neighbor accused her of being inconsiderate, online reactions overwhelmingly supported her right to protect her property. Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inconsiderate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inconsiderate
Adjective
  • In interviews, Candy, who struggled with his weight for much of his life, had to deal with the press making rude comments about his size.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This question becomes thornier once Dorotea visits Rocca in prison, finding her rude and abrasive though not irrational.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In the days depicted in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, thoughtless incarceration of the mentally ill was too common.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Seattle might not be a Super Bowl contender, but ranking the Seahawks 20th — three spots behind the last-place Arizona Cardinals, mind you — definitely feels pretty disrespectful.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Rachel then called him disrespectful.
    David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2014, he was found to have been discourteous and used force.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The main point is to avoid being discourteous of the people behind us by letting the door close in their respective faces.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Inconsiderate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconsiderate. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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