How to Use uncaring in a Sentence

uncaring

adjective
  • Perhaps not so brazen and uncaring, but naive to what the world could be like.
    Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The camera proves to be as uncaring as the wilderness itself.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Regulars welcome the chance to grumble about the uncaring servers, the so-so club sandwiches and the crumbs on the floor at that Jim’s a few miles away.
    Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 4 July 2019
  • As Caro learned, Moses ruined other farmers in the same uncaring way.
    Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2017
  • The Ayers — who upbraid her like stern grandparents, firm but not uncaring — have just called her out.
    Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Brazil’s field workers were the first to be affected by these uncaring policies.
    Heslley MacHado Silva, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But the real star is Christopher Plummer as the flinty and uncaring grandfather.
    Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Dec. 2017
  • And yet this is not a triumph for the underdog forces of all that is right and virtuous over their uncaring oppressors.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • First, there’s the fear that an uncaring new ownership might end up sending one of the world’s most vital music libraries down the digital flush hole.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • An uncaring status quo and the politicians who comprise it will not be moved without the kind of righteous pressure that these protests represent.
    Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • It's voiced by a cast of A-listers and tells a funny (and heart-wrenching, at times) story of a family where the parents are selfish and distant and pretty uncaring.
    Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Colman is masterful as a cold but not uncaring figurehead for a country in need of solace.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The praise is bizarrely at odds with the brothers’ latest tweets, which characterize him as incompetent and uncaring.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2022
  • One part of their strategy appears to be depicting UW officials as tone deaf and/or uncaring in the wake of Cephus being found not guilty.
    Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2019
  • If the Cuban missile crisis had gone badly south, and our planet had sat for 50 years as a ruin of atomic slag, this eclipse would nonetheless darken the uncaring eyes of the cockroaches.
    Rev. Dr. David Williams, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Even as your abilities increase, Ori remains a very small force working against a sprawling and uncaring universe.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Be sure to negotiate this with your boss so that you aren’t viewed as insubordinate or uncaring.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The lead characters are women looking to make their way in an environment that is often hard, brutal and uncaring.
    Kristen Arnett, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • People are either concealed in shadow or seen at some distance, as lonely silhouettes in a big, uncaring land.
    Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2017
  • Its regime is racist, uncaring and totalitarian, in the sense of aiming to affect every aspect of people’s lives.
    The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • An Everyman coping with the tumult of the city, Biberkopf is drawn into a life of petty crime and ultimately crushed under the weight of an uncaring society on the brink of self-destruction, losing an arm in the process.
    A.j. Goldmann, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • What has appalled me most of all during this pandemic is the idiocy and totally uncaring attitude of so many Americans — most of them young, some not so young.
    Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Losing a child, a parent or a sibling or being placed in an uncaring or unsafe foster home can do lifelong emotional damage.
    Hillary Borrud, OregonLive.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Still, there will be pressure on the Justice Department to elbow Virginia prosecutors to the side, lest the Trump administration be seen as uncaring.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The ex-husband is uncaring, amoral, self-assured, breezy, confident and a total louse, a convincing case of opposites attracting.
    Mick Lasalle, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2018
  • That was certainly some plan; presumably the entire point was to make Melania seem like an amazingly uncaring and unlikable person?
    Graeme McMillan, WIRED, 24 June 2018
  • Liberal democracies are too slow, too bound by rules and institutional limits, too remote or corrupt or uncaring, to fix the problems of people’s day-to-day lives.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2021
  • However, the recent outbreaks, and the government’s stumbles in handling them, paint a different picture: of an incapable and uncaring regime.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2022
  • With anxiety and stress elevated for so many of us, removing yet another block from the foundation of a partner’s well-being would be uncaring and callous.
    Hannah Herrera Greenspan, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Miller is spot on and delightfully funny as the seemingly daft court counselor Polonius, in many ways the antithesis of Hamlet’s absent father and uncaring uncle.
    Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 4 June 2017

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