uncaring

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Recent Examples of uncaring The celebrity paradox strikes — we’ve been conditioned to care, but his lack of affect comes off as cold and uncaring. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 28 May 2025 Having bounced around uncaring foster homes as a child, Mike maintains minimal contact with his adoptive parents and is skeptical about how much help the authorities can provide with his rehabilitation. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025 In recent years, Update has emerged as the most reliable segment in an often-uneven show, as Che and Jost honed their oddball chemistry as an uncaring provocateur paired with a snarky guy willing to parody his own privilege. Eric Deggans, NPR, 18 May 2025 Both were crashing bores because of the literally nauseating behavior of fans and the uncaring attitude of the proprietors. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for uncaring
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncaring
Adjective
  • As a member of a crew that robs banks, Mr. Blonde is the most ruthless.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
  • President Donald Trump has mounted a ruthless onslaught on the checks and balances established in the Constitution.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • While Charlie Brown played things safe, Snoopy lived an exuberant life in his imagination, casting himself as a frustrated novelist, gleeful dancer, merciless attorney and even a prolific flying ace in a World War I Sopwith Camel.
    Chris Carra, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • Players have openly voiced their struggles with its deep rough, lightning-fast greens, and merciless bunkers.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • And most of those business people tend to have rather stony, cold, dead eyes.
    Andrew Tobias, Vulture, 7 July 2025
  • The reef is home to 45 species of stony corals, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and 6,000 species of marine line total.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • In fact, read any news report of a flight diversion, and chances are there's a thoughtless passenger behind it – someone who didn't want to share the overhead bin space, insisted on jamming their seat all the way back, or didn't want to wait to use the bathroom.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Depictions of suicide are not beyond the pale in horror, of course, but there’s something particularly thoughtless about this execution.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Uncaring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncaring. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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