unsympathizing

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Joffrey Baratheon is as cold and unsympathizing a ruler as Rome’s brutally calculating Gaius Octavian.

From The Verge • Apr. 13, 2015

In life we may look for a singular purity; but also, and with equal probability, for singular self-confidence, a certain unsympathizing straitness, and perhaps a few singular errors.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

Gray did not attempt to help him; he stood looking down at the wretched fugitive with a cold unsympathizing curiosity in his handsome face as he said: "He isn't dead, is he?"

From The Bushranger's Secret by Clarke, Henry, Mrs.

Then, perhaps,—for there was no foreseeing how it might affect her,—Pearl would frown, and clench her little fist, and harden her small features into a stern, unsympathizing look of discontent.

From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock

"I suppose so," replied Mr. Long, who deemed it his duty to be stern and unsympathizing.

From Hope and Have or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People by Optic, Oliver