insensitiveness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insensitiveness
Noun
  • Sabrina Carpenter has been accused of insensitivity after a lyric in her new album referenced wishing agoraphobia upon someone.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • In an era where automation underpins everything from customer service to internal HR processes, the line between efficiency and insensitivity has never been thinner.
    Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe the symptoms of his cognitive decline are inextricable from what seemed to you to be his general self-absorption and thoughtlessness.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There are blatantly far-fetched thrillers, brilliant ones, that haunt us for decades in spite of their narrative inelegance or the quality of their gotchas.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Keeping the battery charged avoids this morsel of powertrain inelegance.
    Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 19 Jan. 2022
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“Insensitiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insensitiveness. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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