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Noun
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And as the fading film star Masha, Eileen Bowman is the absolute queen of comic vanity and clueless insensitivity.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Oct. 2025 -
Meghan Markle was accused of insensitivity by a British tabloid after filming a video from her car seat less than a mile from the tunnel where Princess Diana died.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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Essentially, they’re used to meeting an expectation where rudeness and thoughtlessness aren’t tolerated—because their older sister made sure of that.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
18 Sep. 2025
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Maybe the symptoms of his cognitive decline are inextricable from what seemed to you to be his general self-absorption and thoughtlessness.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Not two years later this tower was to collapse precipitately under its own weight into a pyramid of dust and rubble, only to be rebuilt later, in, unaccountably, all its former gracelessness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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There are blatantly far-fetched thrillers, brilliant ones, that haunt us for decades in spite of their narrative inelegance or the quality of their gotchas.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Sep. 2022
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Keeping the battery charged avoids this morsel of powertrain inelegance.—
Derek Powell,
Car and Driver,
19 Jan. 2022
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“Insensitiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insensitiveness. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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