How to Use unsympathetic in a Sentence

unsympathetic

adjective

• Right now, though, that is the hand that Americans have been dealt by the unsympathetic house that is the year 2020.
  — Ted Anthony, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2020
• As the son of a farmer who had never owned his own land, Michaux was not unsympathetic to the aims of the revolution.
  — Shaun Assael, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Let your fury at my unsympathetic answer give off the worst of its heat.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2023
• But the wind seemed unsympathetic, and pulled on at least one brim with enough force to rip it from its moorings and send it flying.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
• Sa knew that her mother was unsympathetic to the protests.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• Hating on the unsympathetic and out-of-touch Texans is one thing.
  — Brian T. Smith, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
• Even in the worst-case scenario, an unsympathetic agent might confiscate the drugs — but not arrest you.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• It’s not so much that all the characters are so unsympathetic.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
• Cantwell and Spencer, though, seemed aligned in their view of who would constitute an unsympathetic juror.
  — Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2021
• The four men in the bus rape case were sentenced to death, but the risk of severe penalties seems to have had little effect and the police are frequently unsympathetic.
  — John Elliott, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2014
• Fires, droughts, and outbreaks surge with a kind of unsympathetic wildness.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
• What we’re left with is just Julia, a random, boring, unsympathetic woman with a thing stuck in her head.
  — Jason Kehe, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• She is questioned with brisk but not unsympathetic directness by the judge (Valérie Dréville).
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
• Meanwhile, Oregon Ducks fans have been less than unsympathetic to their former coach’s plight due to the way in which Taggart fled the Ducks after just one season.
  — Tim Brown, oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2019
• Myers is used to the angry stares and unsympathetic comments other shoppers make when Sophie has a tantrum in a store.
  — Julia Naftulin, Health.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• Plus, in the past, city leaders have been reluctant to appear unsympathetic to the plight of the homeless, but that has changed in recent months as fires at camps have become more frequent.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• Roberts has on occasion played unsympathetic characters, though these have been rare over the course of her long career.
  — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
• Before long there will be new enemies—ones who aren’t as unsympathetic as the likes of Jared Kushner.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 22 Aug. 2017
• In a move out of Whiplash, his unsympathetic professor forced him to sit this Jeff Lorber Fusion song anyway.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• His response was an unsympathetic frown and shrug, drawing ire from the Rising fanbase.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2022
• The word gets batted around a lot, but there’s little in Galliano’s unsympathetic demeanor in the interviews shot for High & Low to suggest much more than lip service.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• Small government is something of a mantra among many around the Capitol, so supporters perhaps spoke in front of an unsympathetic crowd.
  — Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 18 Feb. 2020
• Water remains a strong theme throughout The Glass Hotel, equally a force of unsympathetic chaos and beauty.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2020
• The hockey star Alex Ovechkin, center among Russian professional athletes in the public’s anger over the war in Ukraine, played before the most unsympathetic crowd yet.
  — David Shoalts, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2022
• Jane is wildly unsympathetic as a lead character, and the Hollywood side of the show veers toward soapy, which makes this a bit juicer and less wrenching than other missing-kid shows.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• Thanks to science fiction, AI is often perceived as a threat to humans, a destroyer of jobs and an unsympathetic overlord toiling away in the cloud.
  — James Duez, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• His father sized us up warily, hoping his son wasn’t in for disappointment at the hand of a unsympathetic adult.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2017
• Abby, unlikable but not wholly unsympathetic, sees through people to the point of looking right past them.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 June 2019
• Those who are unsympathetic to ISIS risk being victimized by the group, a dynamic that over time could swell into yet another challenge to the government’s legitimacy.
  — Thanassis Cambanis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2019
• Dunaway is magnetic, but completely unsympathetic as Diana, never taking an easy route that might have won her some sympathy.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024