Dictionary entry
Unsympathetically
Pronunciation: /ʌnsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)li/
Pronunciation
/ʌnsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)li/
Myanmar Meaning
ပစ်ပစ်ခါခါ။ မထောက်မထား။
Definition
unsympathetic /ʌnsÇmpǝ'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
- ‘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.’