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

Mrs. Fabens had joys that flowing tears expressed, and Fanny was not an unsympathizing hearer.

From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Lee, Day Kellogg

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

I have said that the abundant physical gift of life may carry with it a certain temptation to an unsympathizing self-sufficiency.

From Strong Souls A Sermon by Beard, Charles

"You must," was the unsympathizing reply, and seeing me still hesitate, he added: "You can't walk, and this is the only way."

From Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, C.A. in August, 1891 by Cole, Almira Stillwell