Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not compassionate; void of compassion or pity; destitute of tenderness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not compassionate; without
pity or anycompassion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I just cannot believe that people are so incompassionate.
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Better to draw attention to the zero-sum nature of intervention in this teaching moment rather than cast aspersions on the unfortunate and play into the “cold greedy incompassionate market fundamentalist” rhetoric.
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But with the boob tube ruling our lives, we have become so desensitized and incompassionate, inconsiderate, selfishand drawn within ourselves like nobody else exists, that we can't really see for looking anymore.
WOULD YOU CHANGE? 2008
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He had a decent stump speech we'll have a 50 state strategy, Bush lies and is incompassionate, Dems have values and can't forget Louisiana...
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He had a decent stump speech we'll have a 50 state strategy, Bush lies and is incompassionate, Dems have values and can't forget Louisiana...
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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The impish invention — malignant purpose in its incompassionate metallic heart — furiously pursued Christmas twenty feet at a bound, discs whirling, every bearing squeaking with spite and fury.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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And I don't how you can consider it incompassionate to violate scripture when you are supposed to be a minister of scripture.
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The reply angered Morgan into releasing the poor woman, "detaining the said religious men as prisoners in her place," and "using them according to the deserts of their incompassionate intrigues."
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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The impish invention -- malignant purpose in its incompassionate metallic heart -- furiously pursued Christmas twenty feet at a bound, discs whirling, every bearing squeaking with spite and fury.
My Tropic Isle 1887
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Your children must be terrified of parents that are so completely incompassionate.
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