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as in ruthless
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
gave the homeless people on the street only an unfeeling glance
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as in numb
lacking in sensation or feeling
her heart was as cold and hard as the unfeeling marble statue in her garden
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as in inanimate
lacking animate awareness or sensation
she spoke politely even to the unfeeling virtual assistant on her phone
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Recent Examples of unfeeling
One solution is to create more positive role models for AI systems—at present, the canon mostly comprises murderous and unfeeling robots, like HAL 9000 and the Terminator.
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Tharin Pillay,
Time,
12 Mar. 2026
The truth is that state government is not some distant, unfeeling bureaucracy.
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John Atkinson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
There’d be too much sympathy in watching this cookie get pulverized by unfeeling overlords.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
For example, 1975’s Welfare carefully documents the hoops that working people had to jump through to obtain welfare benefits at New York’s Waverly Welfare Center, representing the government as an intractable and unfeeling force.
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Vikram Murthi,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2026
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Tharin Pillay,
Time,
12 Mar. 2026
The truth is that state government is not some distant, unfeeling bureaucracy.
—
John Atkinson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
There’d be too much sympathy in watching this cookie get pulverized by unfeeling overlords.
—
Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
For example, 1975’s Welfare carefully documents the hoops that working people had to jump through to obtain welfare benefits at New York’s Waverly Welfare Center, representing the government as an intractable and unfeeling force.
—
Vikram Murthi,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfeeling
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Canadian quartet Truck Violence have been sloshing together these subgenres in a ruthless manner for several years now, and their sophomore album and debut for the Flenser aims for even higher drops between those peaks and valleys.
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There was relative peace for 11 years, until a second civil war erupted in 1983, when leaders in Khartoum imposed sharia (Islamic) law and accelerated repression of the southern Christian rebels, which ultimately allowed a ruthless military officer, Omar al-Bashir, to come to power in 1989.
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The bullet hit close to his spine, leaving his legs numb.
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Feeling numb or unable to experience emotions.
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As a result, the concept of animal rights was non-existent and people were free to treat animals like any other inanimate property.
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Both cameras have extremely sticky tracking systems that focus on the eyes of people, wildlife, pets, and insects, as well as inanimate subjects like trains, planes, automobiles, and motorbikes.
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The poem that precedes it, the Iliad, is a cruel and beautiful work, the ultimate story of war; the Odyssey has its warlike passages, but its central energies seem almost commonplace beside the merciless fury of Achilles.
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Humility is the posture; the standard is merciless.
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When Bill’s older brother Henry (Barry Ward) finds the pianist in numbed solitude in his dingy apartment, Bill has canceled all his upcoming gigs, saying Scotty cannot be replaced.
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Ingber also notes the numbed response to these strikes from much of the American public, something that, in part, may come from the routine nature of these drone strikes as something that the nation has become desensitized to dropping bombs on enemies.
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She was found unconscious in the bay and had emergency brain surgery at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital the night of the crash.
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The man was unconscious and unresponsive after hitting the ground, police said.
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Oscar Wilde, for example, reposes beneath a hulking deity whose iconoclastic castration, back in 1961, did little to restrain pilgrims seeking to smear red lips across his stony physique.
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Instead of looking like a sleek urban loft, the room can quickly start to feel cold, stony, and impersonal.
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According to the arrest report, the victim had fallen asleep while seated at the dining room table.
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At least one was an infant, asleep in the back seat.
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“Unfeeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfeeling. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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