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unsympathetic

[uhn-sim-puh-thet-ik] / ˌʌnˌsɪm pəˈθɛt ɪk /


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Kennedy describes her relationship with Róisín, as "unfinished business" as the lead character is the same unsympathetic teenager from her 2021 collections of short stories The End of the World is a Cul-de-sac.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

There is also a risk of exposing the infirmities of age to an often unsympathetic public, thanks to concert videos that circulate on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

According to the complaint, Prabhakar had taught the story for nearly a decade without incident and used it in a unit on unsympathetic and unreliable narrators alongside works by Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Past being unlikable, he’s unsympathetic, and worse, for all his noisy behavior, uninteresting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

According to the unsympathetic account of Cabello Balboa, Washkar’s mother, who was apparently willing to marry her dead brother, objected to her son’s plan to marry her daughter.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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