Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being insensitive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
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Examples
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On September 11, Serbia's war crimes prosecutor announced indictments against the group for murders and other crimes in Cuska that showed "extreme cruelty, brutality, insensitiveness and ruthlessness."
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On September 11, Serbia's war crimes prosecutor announced indictments against the group for murders and other crimes in Cuska that showed "extreme cruelty, brutality, insensitiveness and ruthlessness."
Fred Abrahams: Small Fish, Big Fish in Serbia Fred Abrahams 2010
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On September 11, Serbia's war crimes prosecutor announced indictments against the group for murders and other crimes in Cuska that showed "extreme cruelty, brutality, insensitiveness and ruthlessness."
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The anomalous multi-million NBN-ZTE broadband scandal is not the first attempt to make the national government suffer for the ineptitude and insensitiveness of some public officials whose motives are only to make money at the expense of the millions of poor taxpayers who pay their taxes honestly without a choice, while the rich and the influentials get away with it.
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Particularly the social insensitiveness of the present government has increased disparities and raised tension.
Naveen Patnaik found to be most insensitive to people and their problems Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Particularly the social insensitiveness of the present government has increased disparities and raised tension.
Archive 2007-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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It reflects the insensitiveness and fanaticism of the House of Saud.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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He has the insensitiveness of a child of thirteen.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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There is Vargas State, as a monument to the laziness, the incapacity and the insensitiveness of the national government.
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There is Vargas State, as a monument to the laziness, the incapacity and the insensitiveness of the national government.
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