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unsympathetic

[uhn-sim-puh-thet-ik] / ˌʌnˌsɪm pəˈθɛt ɪk /


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There is also a risk of exposing the infirmities of age to an often unsympathetic public, thanks to concert videos that circulate on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

According to the complaint, Prabhakar had taught the story for nearly a decade without incident and used it in a unit on unsympathetic and unreliable narrators alongside works by Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

After he joined the 2022 protests, he says, she became critical of his activities and unsympathetic over the deaths of friends of his in the January protests.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

The neighbors weren’t unsympathetic, nor were they impractical.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

He didn’t want to discuss Captain Cook with this unsympathetic service man, who was already staring at Mr. Popper as if he thought Mr. Popper was not quite right in his head.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater


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