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Meanings of insensitive in English

Not responsive to physical stimuli.

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        Usage of insensitive in English
        1
        It is simply not true that the British are insensitive to beauty.
        The Guardian
        2
        It is culturally insensitive to say no funeral services can be held.
        Jamaica Observer
        3
        Watch your responses: slightly insensitive responses will come back after the weekend!
        The South African
        4
        You insensitive piece of…. Image credit: Pixabay Read the full post here.
        The South African
        5
        Bill Clinton defended her 1994 remarks, which protesters say were racially insensitive.
        Reuters
        6
        They invite us to believe that he has been insensitive and dismissive.
        The Irish Times
        7
        Too much potential harm and pain can be inflicted by insensitive rhetoric.
        The Irish Times
        8
        As a consequence, malignant cells may become insensitive to various anti-cancer drugs.
        Pubmed
        9
        Finally, LLC suppressed both cisplatin-insensitive human carcinoma cell training and testing sets.
        Pubmed
        10
        Evidently she was as insensitive to the changes as Mr. Amos was.
        Conrad’s Fate
        11
        Our consciences are apt to have insensitive spots in them, like witch-marks.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
        12
        I thought about his insensitive digs at Lawrence Looper and Wally Cagle.
        Bare Bones
        13
        I'm ashamed of you; I never realized you could be this insensitive.
        Dead calm
        14
        How insensitive, I thought, for him to find his colleague's discomfort irritating.
        The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery
        15
        A man insensitive to beauty in woman never was, never will be.
        The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 02
        16
        Parallel experiments utilized inhibitor insensitive strains or strains lacking the tagged subunit.
        Pubmed
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        Insensitive through the time
        Insensitive across language varieties
        Ireland
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        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
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