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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 Human failings amidst an unfeeling snowpocalypse make for some engaging scenes. Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2024 The author renders the four-year-old Margaret’s inner life with sensitive complexity, depicting an alert child logic that defies adults’ view of her as slow and unfeeling. The New Yorker, 12 June 2024 That’s because for decades, reptiles have been characterized as cold, unfeeling, and even primitive creatures. Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024 But as the film unspools and Agent Smith comes face to face with Neo and his master Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), Weaving begins showing signs that this AI is not so unfeeling, not so unbothered after all. Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unfeeling
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfeeling
Adjective
  • Those hoping to snatch a home in this busy period faced limited options on the market, as the country’s developers had chronically underbuilt compared to demand in the years following the subprime mortgage crisis, leading to ruthless bidding wars and climbing home values.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Hedda orchestrates a ruthless game of manipulation, where lust, jealousy and betrayal collide.
    Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Fans are numb to these sorts of stories.
    Mac Engel October 23, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In a small town like Harding, a crime involving local children of local families shatters the relatively placid and usually numb routines of daily life.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Many people backed his daughter because there was a dog outside in a way, while others acknowledge how creepy that inanimate face could be to a child.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Thin bony fingers as inanimate as dry cigarette papers.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • Just clean, merciless, fundamental football.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Chat members were merciless in their rhetoric against fellow Young Republicans in competing factions of the organization.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Naroditsky, a child prodigy who became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, was found this week unconscious on a sofa by his friends grandmaster Oleksandr Bortnyk and Peter Giannatos, founder of the Charlotte Chess Center.
    Jake Lubbehusen, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Those few villagers who miraculously lived were rendered unconscious.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Needless to say, the sanctions, Trump’s criticism of Putin and the cancelation of in-person talks, elicited a stony silence from Moscow on Thursday.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Madewell Crewneck Cutaway Vest A stony tan vest might just be the sleeper hit of the season.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • During the babysitter's watch, one of the kids, who is usually up, was asleep the entire time.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Her father, Ron, last recalled seeing Bradley asleep on the cabin’s balcony.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2025

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“Unfeeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfeeling. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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