insensitive
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Fischthal apologized to the student in an email and set up a private discussion online about the issue that she titled "Insensitive Language."
From Fox News • May 15, 2021
Insensitive or overly intrusive interviewing can quickly retrigger trauma, yet many of those who agreed to speak to us were desperate for their stories to be heard.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2018
In the ’80s, the Brown University student Jeff Shesol’s “Doonesbury”-esque campus comic strip, “Thatch,” introduced a cape-wearing vigilante called Politically Correct Person, who faced off against his archenemy, Insensitive Man.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2016
Q. Miscarriage and Insensitive SIL: My SIL had a miscarriage last year when she was five weeks pregnant.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2015
Insensitive to this change of meaning, scholars frequently translate the word experimentum in Latin texts as ‘experiment’, thus often giving a totally false impression of its meaning, which is commonly ‘experience’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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