Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not listening; not hearing; not regarding or heeding.
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- adjective Not
listening .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kids won't be kids forever and one way to kill your school in the long run is to be unkind and unlistening now or just to not educate them or tell them what they need to know.
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I shouted to his unlistening ears that I would surrender myself if only he would allow me to stop existing in this vacuum.
Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008
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Like Summers and Klein, a number of the wannabes are arrogant and unlistening.
Benjamin R. Barber: Obama's Cabinet Candidates: Harvard Rules and Wisdom Wanes 2008
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Kids won't be kids forever and one way to kill your school in the long run is to be unkind and unlistening now or just to not educate them or tell them what they need to know.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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I was in Washington last week, making a last ditch attempt to convince the unlistening that film "sanitizing" is bad.
Marshall Herskovitz: Where was the filibuster over film "sanitizing?" 2008
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IN PRACTICE it is widely derided as undemocratic, unaccountable, manipulated, unlistening, and at the end of the day railroaded by the government.
Historic Warwick: Comrades, Sisters and Brothers, Colleagues - What Has Been Delivered? 2007
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IN PRACTICE it is widely derided as undemocratic, unaccountable, manipulated, unlistening, and at the end of the day railroaded by the government.
Archive 2007-09-16 2007
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Stalking my unlistening tendency, finding what I don't like to hear nor listen, of course.
il blog: School for parents, round #3 Decio Biavati 2006
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An empty echo that grew closer, but not less hollow, as she uttered each word — uttered each word as if its sound were born in her soul and progressed to her mouth, dying a stillborn death as the syllables floated away and beyond, deaf to all but unlistening ears.
absentia Diary Entry absentia 2001
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"The arrogant attitude and the unlistening behaviour of the employer has reached stinking levels," charged the ZCTU.
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