Dictionary entry

Unsympathetically

Pronunciation: /ʌnsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)li/

Pronunciation

/ʌnsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)li/

Myanmar Meaning

ပစ်ပစ်ခါခါ။ မထောက်မထား။

Definition

unsympathetic /ʌnsÇmpǝ'θetÇk / adj ၁။ ~ (to/ to- wards sb) စာနာစိတ္မရိွေသာ။ မငဲ့ေသာ။ a cold, unsympathetic man ❍ She tends to be unsympathetic to those less fortunate than herself. ၂။ ~ (to/ towards sth) လက္မခံေသာ။ He is unsympathetic towards any kind of liberal policy. ❏ unsympathetically adv ပစ္ပစ္ခါခါ။ မေထာက္မထား။

Examples

  1. ‘A generally unsympathetic Supreme Court will again take up the issue - in the context of federal contracting programs - next term.’
  2. ‘Reporters and publications seen as unsympathetic to the administration's goals find it harder to get access to officials.’
  3. ‘People see that present-day law is unduly lenient towards the criminal
  4. and unsympathetic
  5. sometimes harsh
  6. towards the victim.’
  7. ‘They've also been portrayed
  8. by the husband and his attorneys
  9. and by unsympathetic media
  10. as everything from religious fanatics to pathetic simpletons.’
  11. ‘At times it's excruciatingly well-observed and cruel
  12. but without being totally unsympathetic.’
  13. ‘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.’
  14. ‘He said it was natural for the public to feel unsympathetic towards prisoners at a time when crime was rampant and prisons overflowing.’
  15. ‘When I just go ahead and speak my mind
  16. inevitably it comes out sounding like I am an insensitive
  17. unsympathetic rationalist.’
  18. ‘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.’
  19. ‘His own gaze
  20. generally unsympathetic and indifferent to the Other as such
  21. evokes little sympathy.’
  22. ‘Distributors and studios are fairly unsympathetic entities
  23. so it's hard to get average people to care about them.’
  24. ‘With her face shadowed with the night
  25. it was hard to tell if her expression was concerned or unsympathetic as she looked to the girl sitting next to her.’
  26. ‘A petite woman dressed in pearls and a well-tailored suit
  27. she comes across as shrewd and hardheaded but not unsympathetic to her subjects.’
  28. ‘This led to some inconsistent and frankly unbelievable plot devices and left me feeling detached and unsympathetic towards both of the lead characters.’
  29. ‘I don't mean to sound harsh and unsympathetic
  30. but I did not want to be held hostage in a room listening to other peoples' problems.’
  31. ‘One of the lady victims feels that they are being let down and find themselves directionless in an unsympathetic environment.’
  32. ‘There's nothing quite as unsympathetic as a politician looking for sympathy.’
  33. ‘He said both he and his ministers had practiced an ‘illogical
  34. unsympathetic and self-centered style of communication’.’
  35. ‘The precise merit of his book is that he details how pluralist authors have evolved in response to both sympathetic and unsympathetic critics.’
  36. ‘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
  37. and unsympathetic to terrorism.’