unreceptive

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But such hopes appear increasingly vain with Pyongyang remaining unreceptive to the overtures of South Korea's centre-left president, Lee Jae Myung.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

In George Cooper's case, he says one was "so unreceptive to the point where they were actually angry", and for Elle Gorman, they questioned whether she was "not eating on purpose".

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2023

Though only up shortly, his videos changed the minds of two people he had thought would be unreceptive: his parents.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

And I say that as someone who’s hardly unreceptive to those pleasures; clearly, to judge by the Great American “Sopranos” Watch/Rewatch of 2021, very few of us are.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2021

Might all the societies of an entire continent be unreceptive, thereby explaining technology’s slow pace of development there?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond