Term Gallery logo

Meanings of unfeeling in English

Devoid of feeling for others.

Related terms

Unfeeling.

Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "hardhearted"
Examples for "hardhearted"
1
He wondered what made them so hardhearted and their children so bold.
Amy Foster
2
To tell the truth, Boreas was not as hardhearted as he looked.
The Adventures of Prince Lazybones, and Other Stories
3
In the end, I was not hardhearted enough to prolong the silence.
The Guardian
4
Crack my son over the head, will you, you hardhearted, murtherin' divil?
Sister Carrie: A Novel
5
You are bound to think me hardhearted; but that is not the case.
Three Comedies
1
When it comes to that they ought to be stonyhearted... View Article
The new yorker
2
Bankers are used to being called heartless, or at least stonyhearted.
The new yorker
3
Still Mr Rubb sat in silence, and she thought that he must be stonyhearted.
Miss Mackenzie
Usage of unfeeling in English
1
But Pamela knew that others saw her family as decadent, careless, unfeeling.
The double bind
2
How could a man, a Jewish man, ask such an unfeeling question?
The Guardian
3
I couldn't speak of this in such a crude and unfeeling way.
Prince Lestat
4
The lawyer spoke in an unfeeling tone and with a sinister smile.
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
5
The ladies smiled, and one gentleman laughed in a most unfeeling manner.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 / Books for Childr...
6
All concurred in declaring the archduke to be obstinate, unfeeling, and intractable.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
7
The pantograph was tracing Weaver's eyelids, and then the unfeeling eyes themselves.
The Worshippers
8
Their faces bore that unfeeling stamp, which springs from depravity and degradation.
Views A-foot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
9
As I have renounced such an unfeeling, unsympathizing friend as Herr B.
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1
10
The incompetent man, on the other hand, is presuming, exacting, and unfeeling.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 / A Maga...
11
But I now believe that you are unnaturally cold, heartless, and unfeeling.
Taken Alive
12
I had pictured that world to myself as cold, selfish, and unfeeling.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II; Or, The History of the Count de...
13
I think they are, generally, more unfeeling and selfish than poor people.
Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories
14
Without God, the universe can only be a machine... unthinking, uncaring, unfeeling.
The Hyperion Cantos
15
I've often thought since, how selfish and unfeeling I must have been.
Masterman Ready
16
Was this the unfeeling, the degraded soul you thought to be mine?
The Mettle of the Pasture
About this term
More collocations
Unfeeling through the time
Unfeeling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common