How to Use insensitive in a Sentence

insensitive

adjective
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  • Bar and restaurant dress codes, however, are legal even if some see them as racially insensitive.
    — Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Some saw the commentary as insensitive to anyone cutting back on alcohol this month.
    — Marty Swant, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • After the episode aired, many fans called out Marks for not correcting Cosby for her insensitive remarks.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • By contrast, Biden must balance how to push forward without seeming insensitive.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 July 2024
  • The board says the Indian mascot was racially insensitive.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Aries and Capricorns can come across as a bit insensitive whereas Cancer risings need a little coddling.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
  • Palihapitiya’s remarks drew swift backlash from critics, who called his comments insensitive.
    — Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Of course the adventure-authors belonged to their time, and their language and expressed attitudes could be considered insensitive and even racist today.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Often, government officials were insensitive to their plight.
    — Johanna Deeksha, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Mary clearly never grasps that in this conversation, but knows well enough to apologize for offending someone with a racially insensitive comment.
    — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Or sexist, insensitive, and, at the very least, a bit out-of-touch?
    — Lori Nickel, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Some teachers in Fairfax found the contents of the email to be a bit insensitive.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • That’s not meant to be insensitive to anybody, that’s a fact.
    — Dallas News, 26 July 2022
  • The word is a racially insensitive term for the Khoekhoe, an indigenous group in South Africa.
    — Variety, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The answer was changed by The New York Times as part of its effort to remove obscure or insensitive words from the game.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • The school has since said, handling of the decision came across as insensitive.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The 36-year-old plays the ukulele in the apology video, which many fans criticized as insensitive.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • He was fired as the voice of the Aflac duck in 2011 after making insensitive jokes on Twitter about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan that year.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • His play, which might have been smashed by the insensitive or botched by the fatuous, has fallen into expert hands.
    — Claudia Cassidy, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2022
  • Jennie Nguyen joined the group in the show's sophomore run but was fired ahead of season 3 for her racially insensitive social posts.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
  • And for someone who doesn't jog at all, those running shorts could seem insensitive and even cruel.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Being poor does not make one a rube or insensitive to talent.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
  • This isn’t the first time high-profile coaches have been in trouble for insensitive comments.
    — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Kevin Hart had been named as host of the 2019 show but stepped down amid controversy over his resurfaced insensitive tweets.
    — Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Executives who turn their backs on the major events in the world around them will be seen as arrogant, naive, insensitive, or all the above.
    — Cheryl Naumann, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The video was met with a wave of criticism that her video came off as insensitive, poking fun at critics’ grievances.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • Some have called the joke insensitive because Pinkett Smith has talked about her struggles with hair loss caused by alopecia.
    — Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Both have endured criticism for either the seeming insensitive nature of the layoffs (the case for Twitter) or the careless lead up to the layoffs (the case for Meta).
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Not to be insensitive, but there are a lot of people who are the product of unplanned and even unwanted pregnancies.
    — Zack Ford, CNN, 29 May 2022

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