How to Use unsympathetic in a Sentence

unsympathetic

adjective
  • Let your fury at my unsympathetic answer give off the worst of its heat.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2023
  • But the wind seemed unsympathetic, and pulled on at least one brim with enough force to rip it from its moorings and send it flying.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Fires, droughts, and outbreaks surge with a kind of unsympathetic wildness.
    — Jason Parham, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Hating on the unsympathetic and out-of-touch Texans is one thing.
    — Brian T. Smith, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Even in the worst-case scenario, an unsympathetic agent might confiscate the drugs — but not arrest you.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Cantwell and Spencer, though, seemed aligned in their view of who would constitute an unsympathetic juror.
    — Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2021
  • As the son of a farmer who had never owned his own land, Michaux was not unsympathetic to the aims of the revolution.
    — Shaun Assael, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • Roberts has on occasion played unsympathetic characters, though these have been rare over the course of her long career.
    — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
  • What we’re left with is just Julia, a random, boring, unsympathetic woman with a thing stuck in her head.
    — Jason Kehe, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • In any event, Khalil is, by any metric, a wildly unsympathetic figure.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • What if your neighbor is unsympathetic?
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
  • His response was an unsympathetic frown and shrug, drawing ire from the Rising fanbase.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2022
  • A lot of us thought, wow, if there’s really sort of this unsympathetic movement toward prisoners, what does that say?
    — Miranda Kennedy, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024
  • To the person being nudged, this can feel unsympathetic or intrusive.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Abby, unlikable but not wholly unsympathetic, sees through people to the point of looking right past them.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 June 2019
  • At first, protesters vandalised firms unsympathetic to the cause.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • His father sized us up warily, hoping his son wasn’t in for disappointment at the hand of a unsympathetic adult.
    — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2017
  • She is questioned with brisk but not unsympathetic directness by the judge (Valérie Dréville).
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Using a card to tip was often impossible and could even elicit eye rolls from an unsympathetic bartender.
    — Anthony Palazzo, Fortune Europe, 10 May 2024
  • The litigation made both of them look unsympathetic, Lovell said.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 14 May 2026
  • Myers is used to the angry stares and unsympathetic comments other shoppers make when Sophie has a tantrum in a store.
    — Julia Naftulin, Health.com, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Many of them are completely unsympathetic to the Ukrainians, if not outright hostile to them.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Right now, though, that is the hand that Americans have been dealt by the unsympathetic house that is the year 2020.
    — Ted Anthony, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Before long there will be new enemies—ones who aren’t as unsympathetic as the likes of Jared Kushner.
    — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The four men in the bus rape case were sentenced to death, but the risk of severe penalties seems to have had little effect and the police are frequently unsympathetic.
    — John Elliott, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2014
  • Denying her husband both love and his right to achieve that kind of happiness for himself makes Claire seem enormously unsympathetic.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Small government is something of a mantra among many around the Capitol, so supporters perhaps spoke in front of an unsympathetic crowd.
    — Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 18 Feb. 2020
  • And unsympathetic to the audience members who were upset with the protesters.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But in interviews, some sailors said that the return to sea, often with unsympathetic leaders, was retraumatizing for many of them.
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Plus, in the past, city leaders have been reluctant to appear unsympathetic to the plight of the homeless, but that has changed in recent months as fires at camps have become more frequent.
    — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 6 Nov. 2019

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