insensible
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But the Cylinder Sling by Building Block flirts with such attitude without becoming rude or insensible.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2024
"The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, passed in 1958, requires all animals be 'rendered insensible to pain' before being shackled or killed — all animals except for poultry," she notes.
From Salon • May 10, 2023
The novel positions him as insensible to agendas, hopelessly subject to the whims of the altruistic and the cruel.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022
Lying insensible in the hospital, Hwang imagines a big, brash, classic American-style musical, replete with high-kicking chorus lines and bright harmonies.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019
Lying in his hammock, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was insensible to the pleas for clemency.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing insensible
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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