as in ruthless
not feeling or showing concern for someone or something
She has an uncaring attitude toward her schoolwork. He is a cold and uncaring man.
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Recent Examples of uncaring
And wearing a smile while delivering bad news, such as budget cuts or layoffs, makes a leader appear uncaring and out of touch.
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Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.d., Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
The risk, of course, is that the North Koreans will learn what those Russian marines learned recently: that their commanders are cruel, ignorant or both—and that following stupid orders from uncaring officers is bad for your health.
—David Axe, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
This urgent and necessary documentary makes plain the obvious evil of an uncaring government that insists on gaining full control of the bodies of its people, unmoved by the pain that follows.
—Jourdain Searles, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2024
Well, Reg would have said that the real athletes were the tiny cohort of humans who subjected themselves to ferrets being put in this uncaring and potentially cruel situation.
—Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
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Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.d., Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
The risk, of course, is that the North Koreans will learn what those Russian marines learned recently: that their commanders are cruel, ignorant or both—and that following stupid orders from uncaring officers is bad for your health.
—David Axe, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
This urgent and necessary documentary makes plain the obvious evil of an uncaring government that insists on gaining full control of the bodies of its people, unmoved by the pain that follows.
—Jourdain Searles, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2024
Well, Reg would have said that the real athletes were the tiny cohort of humans who subjected themselves to ferrets being put in this uncaring and potentially cruel situation.
—Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncaring
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Yet in 2016-17, free from midweek continental trips, Conte’s side stormed to the title with 93 points, spearheaded by a ruthless Diego Costa.—
Conor O'Neill,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Rendezvous Views The Island has been infused with an abundance of Bars, and now every opportunist is out to hit the jackpot including the ruthless crime kingpin Fletcher Kane.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The most intriguing of the Japanese cast is Kasamatsu (a principal character on Max’s Tokyo Vice) as Major Nakamura, a thoughtful man who seems resistant to Colonel Kota’s instruction to be more merciless.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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The temptation is too much for a merciless monarch to resist and she's briefed on the details of the team's counter-terrorism assignment.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Over the course of these pictures, Mad Max himself has gone from a man who has lost everything to an existential ghost, a quiet and stony figure with no past and no future.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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Needless to say, the comments were met with a stony silence in Europe, and were the strongest signal yet of a widening ideological and geopolitical rift between the two powers since President Donald Trump came to power.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2025
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These wishes feel to me very thoughtless and insensitive.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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Iris, played by Heretic and Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher, is a gorgeous yet enigmatic young woman who looks something like Zooey Deschanel in her New Girl years but without her happy, slightly thoughtless enthusiasm for life.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Uncaring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncaring. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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