Get to know Unsympathetic better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like uncongenial or incompatible.
Unsympathetic meaning
Not sympathetic; ill-disposed
Synonyms of Unsympathetic
Using Unsympathetic
- The main meaning on this page is: Not sympathetic; ill-disposed
- Useful related words include: uncongenial, incompatible, sympathetic, unkind.
- In the example corpus, unsympathetic often appears in combinations such as: unsympathetic to, an unsympathetic, and unsympathetic.
Context around Unsympathetic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unsympathetic
- In this selection, "unsympathetic" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, initially, bureaucratic, consistently, tone, neighbour and male stand out and add context to how "unsympathetic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include condemning his unsympathetic tone and and a bureaucratic unsympathetic and adversarial. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unsympathetic" sits close to words such as acrimony, aerosmith and albus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unsympathetic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The insurance company was unsympathetic. (5 words)
I’m sort of unsympathetic. (5 words)
Experts are not unsympathetic to that position. (7 words)
The production as a whole is effective in holding up a mirror to society and our approach to child safety, but we are left unsympathetic to the characters themselves, only invested in the play through Frances Poet’s story and the powerful aesthetics. (43 words)
Former Post Office chair Staunton told the hearing that during his time in the role he had formed a view that the state-owned body had taken a bureaucratic, unsympathetic and adversarial approach primarily focused on saving taxpayers’ money on payouts. (41 words)
Coun Stone said during last Wednesday’s debate that he was “not unsympathetic” to the council’s financial challenges and urged the new government to introduce new legislation to combat pavement parking and to invest in pavement maintenance. (38 words)
How can they sleep at night, with that kind of unsympathetic, and insensitive attitude? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
David Bolton, 66, was admitted to Canberra Hospital with breathing difficulties, as he fought the ACT bureaucracy and an unsympathetic neighbour in Fraser on woodsmoke pollution.
Despite Tanjiro's pleas, Giyu is initially unsympathetic to the fact that Nezuko is the young man's sister.
Sometimes we lost our tempers with unsympathetic male colleagues.
Coun Stone said during last Wednesday’s debate that he was “not unsympathetic” to the council’s financial challenges and urged the new government to introduce new legislation to combat pavement parking and to invest in pavement maintenance.
Former Post Office chair Staunton told the hearing that during his time in the role he had formed a view that the state-owned body had taken a bureaucratic, unsympathetic and adversarial approach primarily focused on saving taxpayers’ money on payouts.
Mr Shaw said his whole family has tried numerous times to get Housing Solutions to fix the lift, but that they have been consistently unsympathetic to them.
No. I was so excited that there was an unsympathetic gay character in the lead.
The notice states that the structure is 'overly dominant' and 'incongruous' and with an 'unsympathetic design'.
Experts are not unsympathetic to that position.
Just 31/2 years after its defeat in World War I, the Fatherland was helpless before its victorious, unsympathetic enemies.
This tactic not only handicapped the flow of communication, but engendered considerable hostility from all segments of the community who considered her aloof and unsympathetic.
While it’s a way to cope with tragedy, it can possibly come across as glib or unsympathetic.
But he was widely condemned, with commentators questioning his responses and condemning his unsympathetic tone and seeming lack of remorse over the friendship with Epstein.
How can they sleep at night, with that kind of unsympathetic, and insensitive attitude?
The insurance company was unsympathetic.
The interview has been widely criticised with commentators questioning his responses and condemning his unsympathetic tone and lack of remorse for the friendship with the sex offender.
He argues to a partially unsympathetic audience in Galatians 1:11-17 that his gospel comes from the risen Jesus Christ, not from men.
He thought he was headed to Canada, but he was abandoned by brokers without his passport or money in Hong Kong, where he filed for asylum and waited interminably for the unsympathetic bureaucracy to grind its wheels.
I’m sort of unsympathetic.
The production as a whole is effective in holding up a mirror to society and our approach to child safety, but we are left unsympathetic to the characters themselves, only invested in the play through Frances Poet’s story and the powerful aesthetics.
Common combinations with unsympathetic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- unsympathetic to 13×
- an unsympathetic 5×
- and unsympathetic 5×
- unsympathetic and 4×
- unsympathetic tone 3×
- was unsympathetic 3×
- entirely unsympathetic 3×
- not unsympathetic 2×
- his unsympathetic 2×
- of unsympathetic 2×