desensitized

ADJECTIVE

phlegmatic

Synonyms

WEAK

along for the ride apathetic blah cold cool deadpan disinterested dispassionate dull emotionless flat frigid groggy indifferent lethargic lifeless listless passionless passive sluggish uncompassionate undemonstrative unexcitable unfeeling uninvolved unresponsive

Example Sentences

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Desensitized to Ryan’s audacity — and accustomed to Bowles’s equanimity — they shrugged.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2015

Desensitized or self-flagellating, the play’s characters swim in cliché.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2011