How to Use unreceptive in a Sentence

unreceptive

adjective

• Tár was unreceptive to this idea, and it was promptly canceled.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2022
• Bloom, one of the most cutthroat financial heavyweights in the world, is unreceptive.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• The Pentagon was caught off guard by the Haitian request for troops on Friday and quickly struck an unreceptive tone.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2021
• Pitching your ideas to an unreceptive crowd could waste time, so gauge the mood of the room before making presentations.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 29 May 2020
• Her old job was a strain on her mental health, with an unreceptive boss, tedious duties and a lack of teamwork that felt isolating.
  — Hamza Shaban, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
• Up to threefold more sperm were transferred to unreceptive females by clawed than declawed males.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2013
• Courts have seemed unreceptive to what might be labeled wrongful-life cases.
  — Paula Span, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
• Teachers here are often paid minimum wage, and the ruling Law and Justice party has been unreceptive to their calls for higher pay.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• The aggressive aristocratic man leans in to land an almost violent kiss on the rather unreceptive lips of a woman dressed in peasant clothes, who turns her head aside.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 20 July 2017
• Your companions, however, may be unreceptive or in a hurry to get things accomplished quickly in the week ahead.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2020
• There shouldn't have been an empty seat in the hall (Baltimore remains a sadly unreceptive place for vocal recitals), but those that were there were rewarded with two encores.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• India has long been unreceptive to outside criticism, even from its close partners.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
• The story centers on two scientists who, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2020
• What's more, American workers are generally unreceptive to such a large payroll tax hike.
  — Sean Williams, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2017
• Some are especially unreceptive when those directions are coming from a little Black girl.
  — Britney Wilson, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2017
• Despite the efforts of national suffrage movements, Eastern and Southern governments proved unreceptive to such a radical concept.
  — Jennifer Helton, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2020
• Doing business with Cuba has been historically tricky, with complex U.S. rules to untangle, lack of direct bank transactions and an often unreceptive Cuban government.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018
• Internal agency notes drafted before the meeting showed officials bracing for an unreceptive audience.
  — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
• Our analyses demonstrate that the gonopodial claws function to increase sperm transfer to unreceptive females during uncooperative matings but not during receptive matings.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2013

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024