as in detached
based on, influenced by, or resulting from reason or thought rather than feelings or emotions
an unsentimental decision She's completely unsentimental about holidays.
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Recent Examples of unsentimental
The timeline is assembled in such a way that emotional touchstones can sometimes feel manipulative, considering how ruthlessly unsentimental Bobo’s narration sounds.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Aug. 2025
The national mindset is pragmatic, unsentimental, and profit-oriented.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2025
Overwhelmingly, their responses were unsentimental.
—Hannah Pittard, People.com, 8 July 2025
The 1972 novel follows the life of mercurial 6-year-old Sophia and her cranky and unsentimental, but loving, grandmother.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Aug. 2025
The national mindset is pragmatic, unsentimental, and profit-oriented.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2025
Overwhelmingly, their responses were unsentimental.
—Hannah Pittard, People.com, 8 July 2025
The 1972 novel follows the life of mercurial 6-year-old Sophia and her cranky and unsentimental, but loving, grandmother.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsentimental
Adjective
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Due to his austere and detached manner, he is known to immediately inspire awe in his patients.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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The consensus narrative of institutional finance has become so detached from empirical reality that diagnosing the problem requires abandoning its vocabulary for the precision of mathematics.—
Benjamin D. Summers,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Schauffele, the stoic American leader, calmly clapped out of respect.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The most devastating moments come when the anguished player gives way to the smiling father and the stoic partner.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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He was being put through training recently to test his ability to stay calm under pressure as Douglas tried to overstimulate his senses.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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What made the situation a whole lot easier for both of them was the fact that Breezy stayed happy and calm in her car seat through the whole episode.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The infamously monotone and unemotional Young behind the green.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Inadequate manager preparation: Many managers receive little to no training on how to handle layoff conversations with sensitivity, often defaulting to brief, unemotional exchanges that feel insulting to departing employees.—
Caroline Castrillon,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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So, like, the top of my ass, that skin part is numb.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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Rob yelled into the wind that his toes were growing numb.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Watson was accused of being aloof and out of touch and the team’s management was publicly roasted by a furious Phil Mickelson in the Sunday night press conference.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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In fact, despite playing one of her most aloof characters yet, the real Roberts starts to tear up when Sevigny talks about admiring her.—
Ramin Setoodeh,
Variety,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Only on particularly bumpy tarmac did the GTS-spec suspension become too jarring with the adaptive dampers stiffened up in sport mode, but switching them to normal offered the best of both worlds—excellent, composed body control and tuning that ironed out imperfections remarkably well.—
Peter Nelson,
Robb Report,
1 Oct. 2025
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The vocabulary being used by Qatar’s prime minister is strong, evocative and damning, a departure from his usual composed response to the incessant twists and turns of trying to end the 23-month war in Gaza.—
Paula Hancocks,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Carr, who apparently reacted to Kimmel's suspension last week by sending a GIF of TV characters doing a celebratory dance to a journalist, yesterday described his role at the FCC as that of a dispassionate arbiter.—
Jon Brodkin,
ArsTechnica,
23 Sep. 2025
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Kirkpatrick set out to create a fair, dispassionate tally of Trump’s two terms so far.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Unsentimental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsentimental. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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