unsympathetic
/ˌʌnsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk/
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ˌʌnsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk
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ˌʌnsɪmpə - ˈθɛtɪk -> unsympathetic
Myanmar meaning
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unsympathetic /ʌnsÇmpǝ'θetÇk / adj
၁။ ~ (to/ to- wards sb) စာနာစိတ်မရှိသော။ မငဲ့သော။ a cold, unsympathetic man ❍ She tends to be unsympathetic to those less fortunate than herself.
၂။ ~ (to/ towards sth) လက်မခံသော။ He is unsympathetic towards any kind of liberal policy.
❏ unsympathetically adv
ပစ်ပစ်ခါခါ။ မထောက်မထား။
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- ‘A generally unsympathetic Supreme Court will again take up the issue - in the context of federal contracting programs - next term.’
- ‘Reporters and publications seen as unsympathetic to the administration's goals find it harder to get access to officials.’
- ‘People see that present-day law is unduly lenient towards the criminal, and unsympathetic, sometimes harsh, towards the victim.’
- ‘They've also been portrayed, by the husband and his attorneys, and by unsympathetic media, as everything from religious fanatics to pathetic simpletons.’
- ‘At times it's excruciatingly well-observed and cruel, but without being totally unsympathetic.’
- ‘My generation of mothers - I still have a child at school - has been largely unsympathetic to the whining of new parents about how hard it all is.’
- ‘He said it was natural for the public to feel unsympathetic towards prisoners at a time when crime was rampant and prisons overflowing.’
- ‘When I just go ahead and speak my mind, inevitably it comes out sounding like I am an insensitive, unsympathetic rationalist.’
- ‘The Scottish Executive's slowness to bring in new rights led to accusations that ministers have been ‘got at’ by civil servants unsympathetic to the language.’
- ‘His own gaze, generally unsympathetic and indifferent to the Other as such, evokes little sympathy.’
- ‘Distributors and studios are fairly unsympathetic entities, so it's hard to get average people to care about them.’
- ‘With her face shadowed with the night, it was hard to tell if her expression was concerned or unsympathetic as she looked to the girl sitting next to her.’
- ‘A petite woman dressed in pearls and a well-tailored suit, she comes across as shrewd and hardheaded but not unsympathetic to her subjects.’
- ‘This led to some inconsistent and frankly unbelievable plot devices and left me feeling detached and unsympathetic towards both of the lead characters.’
- ‘I don't mean to sound harsh and unsympathetic, but I did not want to be held hostage in a room listening to other peoples' problems.’
- ‘One of the lady victims feels that they are being let down and find themselves directionless in an unsympathetic environment.’
- ‘There's nothing quite as unsympathetic as a politician looking for sympathy.’
- ‘He said both he and his ministers had practiced an ‘illogical, unsympathetic and self-centered style of communication’.’
- ‘The precise merit of his book is that he details how pluralist authors have evolved in response to both sympathetic and unsympathetic critics.’
- ‘The desire to introduce some form of democracy was/is inconsistent with the objective of having a government that was necessarily sympathetic to the west, and unsympathetic to terrorism.’
Synonyms
unfeeling, uncaring, insensitive, cold, indifferent, heartless, hard, cruel, unconcerned, aloof, antipathetic, apathetic, aversive, callous, cold-blooded, cool, disinterested, frigid, halfhearted, harsh, icy, lukewarm, mean, nasty, obdurate, repellent, repugnant, stony, tough, uncompassionate, uncongenial, unemotional, unkind, unmoved, unpitying, unpleasant, unresponsive
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