Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not sentimental; not apt to be swayed by sentiment; matter-of-fact.

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  • adjective Not sentimental.

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  • adjective facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination

Etymologies

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un- +‎ sentimental.

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Examples

  • Rich: Yes, if he's cruel, the upside is that he's unsentimental, which is refreshing.

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  • I don't find her writing "unsentimental" at all, and I certainly wouldn't describe it as "unsparing".

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  • In the Star interview a day later, he said it's important to discuss the Canadian family in clear-eyed, "unsentimental" terms.

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  • Funke describes the tone as more modern and "unsentimental," a mirror of protagonist Jacob.

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  • In the Star interview a day later, he said it's important to discuss the Canadian family in clear-eyed, "unsentimental" terms.

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  • They offer a glimpse of the kind of unsentimental prose that Alcott often said she longed to write in an "adult novel" but died before she had the chance.

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  • However alluring the goal, he said, pursuing it “would have incurred incalculable human and political costs”; he was expressing the kind of unsentimental caution that is realism’s most important characteristic.

    What Would Wilson Do? 2010

  • However alluring the goal, he said, pursuing it “would have incurred incalculable human and political costs”; he was expressing the kind of unsentimental caution that is realism’s most important characteristic.

    What Would Wilson Do? 2010

  • As for how people died, it was, according to these same texts, altogether straightforward and unsentimental.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Mayor Michael Bloomberg 's mother, Charlotte—the matter-of-fact and unsentimental matriarch of the Bloomberg family who often inspired the funniest lines in the mayor's speeches—died Sunday at her Medford, Mass., home, where Mr. Bloomberg grew up.

    Mayor's Mother Dies at Age 102 Michael Howard Saul 2011

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