How to Use insensitive in a Sentence

insensitive

adjective

• It was insensitive of her to say that.
• He's just a rude, insensitive jerk.
• Or sexist, insensitive, and, at the very least, a bit out-of-touch?
  — Lori Nickel, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
• The first backing tracks were good but too on-the-nose, too insensitive.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
• Many of the quips are insensitive and tough to watch just two years after the show ended.
  — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
• 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
• It's been a little over a week since MTV cut ties with Dee due to her racially insensitive tweets.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 18 June 2020
• 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
• Johnson would’ve kept his insensitive thoughts to himself if didn’t want to cause a fuss.
  — Ashlee Banks, Essence, 18 Mar. 2021
• The gesture seemed to go over well in the room but was widely panned as insensitive to those who were suffering.
  — Chris Megerian and Colleen Long, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
• My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth.
  — Shelby Stewart, Chron, 1 July 2021
• My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth.
  — Ruth Etiesit Samuel, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
• My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2021
• My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth.
  — Greg Cannella, CBS News, 1 July 2021
• 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
• At the time, many users thought that Kalil’s video was insensitive and tone-deaf, given the fact that a pro-Palestinian protest had been taking place near the gala.
  — Bruna Horvath, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
• Mean and insensitive behavior by kids is nothing new; some young people join in to be part of the group.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021
• Making the distinction is insensitive, and a sign that Vallejo has so much work left to do.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Regarded as a no-fuss straight-talker by some, Philip was also in the news over the years for racist and insensitive remarks.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2021
• 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
• The author tells of the enormous amount of money being spent to keep illegals out of the U.S and the insensitive policies that keep them in limbo.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 13 June 2019
• Black leaders, including Harlem pastor and civil rights advocate Johnnie Green, said last week the mayor’s use of the racial phrase in that context was deeply insensitive.
  — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2025
• One of the key creative minds behind Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is owning up to a pair of casting choices widely decried as racially insensitive.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025