unfeelingness

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Noun
  • The British police, however, were given an indication of Daniel’s ruthlessness.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This was the Netherlands being defeated by a less flamboyant side, but one which offered technical skill, tactical quality and a sense of disciplined ruthlessness and defensive quality that all winning sides must possess.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Being tied to the mast of a regime defined by cruelty and graft is a problem of another magnitude entirely.
    Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • After shifting power to the people—like a year-plus bus boycott can do, for example—and getting the government to lessen its corruption, cruelty, injustice or violence, defending those gains is a must.
    Michael Shank, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival — the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival—the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Amid all the barbarity for barbarity’s sake, Jonsson carries the film with a deep well of unspoken regret.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Netanyahu is the excuse for staying silent about Israeli barbarity in Palestine.
    Uriel Kon September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The series begins before Gein has ever killed, in 1945, as dawning awareness of death camps in Europe fills the air with sadism and conspiracy thinking.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The invading parasite is a culture of hate and paranoia and sadism — mass hysteria as sanctioned by the government that is supposed to protect you.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Guardsmen in McPherson Square, ferried there by U.S. Park Service personnel, seemed a world removed from crime and savagery and scum.
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.
    Ginny Tapley Takemori September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The defense flies around, hitting with ferocity.
    Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Misconstrued by many as something akin to an extended Henny Youngman routine, Portnoy’s Complaint more closely resembled, according to Albert Goldman, the comedic world of adolescent Roth and his buddies, with its audacity, ferocity, originality, and sheer fecundity.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Unfeelingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfeelingness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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