unsympathising

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unsympathising - not showing or expressing sympathy; "an uncharitable and unsympathizing attitude"

unsympathetic - not sympathetic or disposed toward; "unsympathetic officialdom"; "people unsympathetic to the revolution"; "his dignity made him seem aloof and unsympathetic"

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Then, perhaps -- for there was no foreseeing how it might affect her -- Pearl would frown, and clench her little fist, and harden her small features into a stern, unsympathising look of discontent.

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We are no longer broken down to one level, and into one mass, under the unsympathising and insensible government of institutions and edicts; but live in unforced intercourse with one another, and consult much oftener the dictates of feeling and promptings of disposition, than the inventions of legislators.

The fickle fortunes of chivalry in eighteenth-century gothic

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past: no wonder the secret escapes the unsympathising observer, who might as well put on spectacles to discern odours.