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unresponsiveness

How to use unresponsiveness in a sentence

Irritated by her unresponsiveness, he grew almost impertinent.

At first their utter unresponsiveness indicated that they did not understand.

She shook her head again and relapsed into unresponsiveness.

With this apologia for Elodie's unresponsiveness, conscientiously recorded later by Andrew Lackaday, we will now proceed.

THE MOUNTEBANKWILLIAM J. LOCKE

He glanced at Monck with the words, almost as if seeking sympathy; but Monck's face was masklike in its unresponsiveness.

She was accustomed to his passive unresponsiveness, and would resent it no more in the husband than in the friend.

“Cobbler” Horn foiled, by dint of sheer unresponsiveness, the first attempt to introduce itself to him made by the world.

However, he was no more sensitive to it, to Carlisle's strange unresponsiveness as he talked, than was the girl herself.

V. V.'S EYESHENRY SYDNOR HARRISON

Struck by her unresponsiveness, he paused to glance at her, and noted with consternation the glimmer of tears in her lashes.

JOAN THURSDAYLOUIS JOSEPH VANCE

He had barred himself in once more behind an impenetrable wall of unresponsiveness.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985