imperceptive
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She was flinty in a way that the willfully imperceptive could easily mistake for chipper.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2017
Our only full confidence is that the NFL will never stop being duplicitous, hypocritical and imperceptive.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2017
This to my critic was a proof that Mr. Strachey was imperceptive and vulgar—“common” the ugly word is.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
Ye would gaze on God With imperceptive blankness up the stars, And mutter, "Why, God, hast thou made us thus?"
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Her eye wandered; the hand to which Angelina clung was an abstract, imperceptive hand—Angelina and Rose were free to pursue their own train of fancy—the garden was at their service.
From The Golden Scarecrow by Sir Hugh Walpole
Vocabulary lists containing imperceptive
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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