unsympathetically

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Mama, as the stern but loving matriarch, is a stock character, and Sissy is written unsympathetically and almost exclusively speaks in the tenor of a whine.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

And Hopper superbly manages the assignment of a character who seems both entitled to sympathy and unsympathetically entitled.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

When she was hit by a car while biking to work, her father unsympathetically said, “Get up, everything is fine,” and sent her on her way.

From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2022

So it was little comfort when an Uzbek guard unsympathetically quipped the other day: “You can’t stay here forever.”

From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2021

He wore loud ties, and said outrageous things without the slightest apparent awareness of how they might sound if repeated unsympathetically.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis