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Meanings of insensitive in inglés

Not responsive to physical stimuli.

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Examples for "sensitive"
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The case is highly sensitive ahead of elections due early next year.
Reuters
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The position of Northern Ireland will remain a sensitive and important issue.
The Irish Times
3
A number of cases have involved civil servants who mislaid sensitive information.
The Guardian
4
Stocks sensitive to rates are leading the market lower for the year.
Reuters
5
Other details, however, can be extremely sensitive and need to remain private.
Reuters
Usage of insensitive in inglés
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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
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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
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They invite us to believe that he has been insensitive and dismissive.
The Irish Times
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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
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Finally, LLC suppressed both cisplatin-insensitive human carcinoma cell training and testing sets.
Pubmed
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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
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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
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common