INSENSITIVE in a Sentence

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For INSENSITIVE, below is one of 14 sentences:
It was a bit insensitive of Fiona to go on so much about fat people when she knows Mandy is desperate to lose weight.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSENSITIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
insensitive
 a.  not responsive to physical stimuli
 a.  not mentally or morally sensitive
Classic Sentence:
1  As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birth, breeding and habits of mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  As she came abreast the crowd something of their tenseness reached her, insensitive though she was, and made fear clutch at her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  It is something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  He was insensitive to all kinds of discourtesy.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
Example Sentence:
1  I don't want to be thought insensitive, but I do think we should go ahead despite the accident.
2  I feel my husband is very insensitive about my problem.
3  It was a bit insensitive of Fiona to go on so much about fat people when she knows Mandy is desperate to lose weight.
4  Women's and Latino organizations that say he is insensitive to civil rights.
5  She's completely insensitive to my feelings.
6  Companies that are insensitive to global changes will lose sales.
7  It was rather insensitive of you to mention his dead wife.
8  One insensitive official insisted on seeing her husband's death certificate.
9  Nathan's hubris spurred him to do things that many considered insensitive.
10  In today's frighteningly violent school climate, it may seem insensitive to approach brawling as a street sport.