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- adjective Not
compassionate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I expect noncompassionate people might enjoy them too.
Painters and Parsnips: Online Resources: Finland Fresca 2009
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But I definitely feel that something has to be done to protect this country from this evil, arrogant, noncompassionate, selfish, unintelligent and antiintellectual administration.
Think Progress » Right-Wing Myths About Katrina, Debunked 2005
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PHILLIPS: Is he going to have to take a noncompassionate approach, like Bush did, or is he going to have to run along the same lines, do you think?
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Laura Bush Sets Tone for GOP - August 5, 2000 2000
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I'm guessing you never grew up in Austin, then you don't have the right to judge the rest of us as being noncompassionate.
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The decidedly noncompassionate phrase iron fist has not even the smooth qualifier that Thomas Carlyle reported in 1850 was used by the Iron Duke’s defeated rival: “Soft of speech and manner, yet with an inflexible rigour of command … ‘iron hand in a velvet glove,’ as Napoleon defined it.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The decidedly noncompassionate phrase iron fist has not even the smooth qualifier that Thomas Carlyle reported in 1850 was used by the Iron Duke’s defeated rival: “Soft of speech and manner, yet with an inflexible rigour of command … ‘iron hand in a velvet glove,’ as Napoleon defined it.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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