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- adverb In an
unresponsive manner.
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Examples
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I would find him sitting on the bedroom floor with one shoe on, the other still on the floor beside him, staring unresponsively at the wall.
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They force us to think - spatially and literally - in two dimensions: tall organizations command unresponsively, and flat organizations respond uncontrollably.
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They force us to think - spatially and literally - in two dimensions: tall organizations command unresponsively, and flat organizations respond uncontrollably.
Armchair Quarterbacking at the corner of Pop Psych and Business.
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The Galactic mothership, that so unresponsively and impressively orbited the Moon, beyond human reach, could not possibly be what it appeared.
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Obviously, some consultant/customer relations guru got his hooks into Verizon online, because they started offering free stuff to people who signed up for their unresponsively restrictive DSL service.
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Obviously, some consultant/customer relations guru got his hooks into Verizon online, because they started offering free stuff to people who signed up for their unresponsively restrictive DSL service.
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The government prosecuted Bronston "on the theory that in order to mislead his questioner, [Bronston] answered the second question with literal truthfulness but unresponsively addressed his answer to the company's assets and not to his own -- thereby implying that he had no personal Swiss bank account at the relevant time."
Preliminary Memorandom Referral Office Of Independent Counsel
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The government prosecuted Bronston "on the theory that in order to mislead his questioner, [Bronston] answered the second question with literal truthfulness but unresponsively addressed his answer to the company's assets and not to his own -- thereby implying that he had no personal Swiss bank account at the relevant time."
Submission By Counsel For President Clinton To The Committee
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He shrugged unresponsively and lifted his arm free of hers, shunning the contact.
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He shrugged unresponsively and lifted his arm free of hers, shunning the contact.
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