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Definition of Insensitively
1. Adverb. In an insensitive manner. "The police officer questioned the woman rather insensitively about the attack"
Definition of Insensitively
1. Adverb. In an insensitive manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insensitively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insensitively
Literary usage of Insensitively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. When the Victim Is a Child by Debra Whitcomb (1992)
"If children are treated insensitively in the pretrial period, the quality of
their participation in the criminal justice system is likely to suffer, ..."
2. Patterns of Deprivation in the Soviet Union Under Brezhnev and Gorbachev by Mervyn Matthews (1989)
"Not only were the deductions in most cases quite sizable, but they were also
rather insensitively imposed. Thus respondents in the lowest wage groups were ..."
3. Developing a Law Enforcement Stress Program for Officers and Their Families by Peter Finn, Julie E. Tomz (1998)
"A "second injury" can be created by insensitively and impersonally dealing with
an officer who has been involved in a critical incident. ..."
4. English Book-illustration of To-day: Appreciations of the Work of Living by Sketchley, Rose Esther Dorothea, 1875- (1903)
"... and Mr. Townsend's drawings represent, not insensitively, the movement and
suggestion of 'The Blithedale Romance' and 'The House of the Seven Gables. ..."
5. Crime Or Custom?: Violence Against Women in Pakistan by Samya Burney, Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1999)
"... victims arriving at the Office of Surgeon Medicolegal in Lahore are often
treated harshly and insensitively by medicolegal staff. ..."
6. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health (1840)
"Admitting, for the sake of the argument, that Mr. Lockhart insensitively acted
thus, lie did so to no efficient purpose. Not being versed in the inspection ..."
7. The Practices and Procedures of the Investigating Services of the Deparment edited by Strom Thurmond (1998)
"... the part of members of the family that the determination was, at least in the
family member's eyes, the wrong conclusion, and/or insensitively conveyed, ..."
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