insensately

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for insensately
Adverb
  • In this volatile environment, comments that appear to minimize or frame the shooting insensitively—like Matt Gutman's—can quickly become career-ending.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to people calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over lawmakers’ allowances.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Before that, Abbie is being ruthlessly scrutinized and controlled by her parents, while Leila’s mother has mostly checked out after her elder daughter’s sudden death.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025
  • All four victims had been ruthlessly stabbed to death before the attacker vanished through the kitchen’s sliding glass door and into the night.
    Ian Berry, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Comedians mercilessly mocked their audiences, and audiences liked to punch back.
    Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Even for someone used to covering for her daughter’s wrongdoings, Tracey is remarkably self-possessed as Laura pries mercilessly into her life and accuses Cherry of every crime under the sun.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The director plays up the humor a lot more than Westlake’s callously cynical prose, for better or worse.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But after the Sriracha-maker callously withheld payments from Underwood, the relationship deteriorated and litigation followed.
    Kate Vitasek, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • The episode unsparingly examines cultural assumptions about race and colorism; similarly, HIM is a scathing critique of how professional sports capitalize upon the bodies and minds of Black athletes.
    Neda Ulaby, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • After decades of obdurately refusing to entertain the idea of bestowing its computers with touch screens, rumor has it that Apple might finally offer this capability.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There is a troubling suggestion of abuse, implying that Jack might have been ill-treated by his mom (and saved by Helen), rather than heartlessly abandoned.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The drama follows Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) as a detective called in to investigate the 1987 massacre of four scientists brutally murdered in inexplicable ways, with a lone survivor the obvious suspect.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Insensately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insensately. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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