unsympathetic

Example Sentences

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As a result, he injected levity into a role that could have come across as purely unsympathetic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Newsom is so unsympathetic in his own book that you could leave with a renewed sense of pity for Kimberly Guilfoyle, his wife from 2001 to 2006 and Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-fiancée.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

Unionists, who wished to preserve Northern Ireland’s place in the U.K., were largely unsympathetic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

He met with Mick Farrell, a psychologist at Manchester United, but feared opening up completely on his struggles in case word spread around the club and he received an unsympathetic response.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

What had ever made me imagine that I could impersonate someone else, that I could be anything other than Widge, the orphan, the unwilling prentice of some unsympathetic master in some unbearable trade?

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood