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adjective

Unfeeling adj.

Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.

Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted. "To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own."

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Etymology of 'Unfeeling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unfeeling" Quotes from Famous Books

... has thus scattered will not perish. The records of his fame are not in books only, but on the fleshly tablets of young hearts, who will not suffer it to die even in the general ear, however base and unfeeling criticism may ...

— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle

... the words spoken, when a troop of rude creatures came scampering into the walk, and a particularly unfeeling monster in curls, pointed to the beautiful up-standing little—hms—and shouted, 'Aunt Judy, look at these ...

— Aunt Judy's Tales • Mrs Alfred Gatty

... on Fate in the library, wore precisely the aspect he had known she would wear. She had been lying awake at night and she had of course wept at intervals, since she belonged to the period the popular female view of which had been that only the unfeeling did not so relieve themselves in crises of the affections. Her eyelids were rather pink and her nice little face ...

— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... you think these leaves are ball proof? And these Indians are but twenty now; but let one of our shots be fired at them, and you will soon see one hundred instead of twenty. May God pardon me if I am unfeeling, but it ...

— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid

... and revulsion of feeling caused by his awakened conscience, his confession, and the gnawing sense of shame, the failure of his ambition, and then his mother's death coming as the awful climax of the calamities he had undergone, and followed by the cold unfeeling harshness of his guardian, and the damping of his hopes—all these things had broken the boy's spirit utterly. Disgrace, and sorrow, and bereavement, and the stings of remorse, and the suffering of punishment—the forfeiture of a guilty past, and the gloom of a lonely ...

— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

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