Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being unfeeling; insensibility; hardness; cruelty.
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- noun The state or condition of being
unfeeling .
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- noun devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
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Examples
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Amid complaints about my general unfeelingness and lack of consideration for a gravely injured man, he got dressed and sat long enough for me to bind up the weak ankle before his natural exuberance asserted itself.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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She gave a small, cynical shrug of the unhurt shoulder; it was part of her make-up that when most her spirit cried out in pain, she must repel pity with a show of unfeelingness.
Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955
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Now would it be Christian, or would it not rather be something more than unchristian -- would it not be gross rudeness and coarse unfeelingness to treat such words, and habits, and customs, with anything but respect and reverence?
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson
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French to this are, doubtless, base and designing intriguers; yet I cannot acquit the people, who are thus wrought on, of unfeelingness and levity.
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If the man was previously to the highest degree merciful and sympathizing, he may become stolid to human suffering as any infant who laughs at its mother's funeral, not from wickedness of disposition but absence of the faculty which appreciates woe, and I doubt not that this change goes far to explain the ghastly unfeelingness of many a Turkish and
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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Richard has provoked me beyond measure by his insolence and unfeelingness about everybody and everything.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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Madame Fouchet herself, the woman, not the actress, was to blame, I think, for our unfeelingness.
In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd
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French to this are, doubtless, base and designing intriguers; yet I cannot acquit the people, who are thus wrought on, of unfeelingness and levity.
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We were putting a certain amount of regret into it; for though Villerville has seen us depart with civilized indifference or the stolidity of the barbarian -- for they are one, we found our own attainments in the science of unfeelingness deficient: to look down upon the village from the next hill top was like facing a lost joy.
In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd
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The unfeelingness which he applied yesterday to our Master, characterises much more the Minister.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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