unreceptive
Example Sentences
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But the bosses are likely to find an increasingly unreceptive audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
It would be the very incurious, unreceptive viewer who leaves “Idea Man” without a heightened appreciation of the human and his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
Breivik has so far shown himself to be unreceptive to rehabilitative work according to a written statement from Hjetland to the court ahead of the trial, which is scheduled to end on Friday.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
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
