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Showing or feeling no concern for others' feelings

Desensitized or numb to any feeling, sensation or emotion

Showing or feeling no concern for others' feelings

(of a person, action, or motive) Making decisions based solely on one's own self-interest or personal profit

Annoyingly imperceptive or slow to understand

Showing little or no feeling

Not perceptive

Considered to be disrespectful, typically to a particular group of people

Having no regard

Inappropriate for a given purpose, situation or occasion

Domineering or overbearing in one's treatment of others

Causing disruption or annoyance through being unwelcome or uninvited

Honest and straightforward in speech or behavior

(of activity) Sluggish or slow-moving

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Showing or feeling no concern for others' feelings

with a heart of stone

uncivilized^US

uncivilised^UK

having a killer instinct

gray^US

grey^UK

with a hide like an elephant

toughened by experience

as tough as old boots

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

ill-humored^US

speaking as one finds

low-down

Neanderthal

calling a spade a spade

rubbing the wrong way

somber^US

sombre^UK

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

sulphurous^UK

sulfurous^US

humourless^UK

humorless^US

knock-down-and-drag-out

unfavorable^US

labored^US

laboured^UK

throwing one's weight about

at each other's throats

throwing weight around

proof against persuasion

sticking to one's guns

hold your ground

standing one's ground

terrorizing^US

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

terrorising^UK

oxidizing^US

oxidising^UK

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“My husband is very insensitive about my problem.”

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Desensitized or numb to any feeling, sensation or emotion

paralysed^UK

paralyzed^US

immobilized^US

immobilised^UK

deprived of sensation

woolly^UK

wooly^US

bedeviled^US

bedevilled^UK

not knowing if you are coming or going

lacking physical sensation

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Showing or feeling no concern for others' feelings

Adjective

(of a person, action, or motive) Making decisions based solely on one's own self-interest or personal profit

looking after number one

on the make

out for what one can get

wrapped up in oneself

patronizing^US

patronising^UK

too big for your boots

think too highly of oneself

pleased with oneself

think a lot of oneself

sure

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

too big for your breeches

looking out for number one

pleased with yourself

in love with yourself

self-contained

self-sufficient

having a swelled head

wrapped up with oneself

think one is the cat's pyjamas

think one is the cat's whiskers

think one is God's gift

phony^US

phoney^UK

blowing one's own trumpet

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Annoyingly imperceptive or slow to understand

dead from the neck up

as thick as two short planks

thick as two short planks

not the full shilling

a brick short of a load

as green as grass

two sandwiches short of a picnic

flakey^US

flaky^UK

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Showing little or no feeling

cool, calm and collected

rolling with the punches

without a care in the world

lacklustre^UK

lackluster^US

centred^UK

centered^US

with the patience of Job

having both feet on the ground

with both feet on the ground

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Not perceptive

not having the faintest about

not knowing the first thing about

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Considered to be disrespectful, typically to a particular group of people

politically incorrect

libellous^UK

libelous^US

unfavorable^US

libeling^US

minimizing^US

dishonoring^US

minimising^UK

libelling^UK

patronizing^US

patronising^UK

turning up your nose at

looking down your nose at

straight from the shoulder

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Having no regard

failing to show proper care and attention

sticking one's neck out

not careful

leading with one's chin

failing to take proper care

jumping to conclusions

careless of one's duty

leaving self wide open

unorganized^US

unorganised^UK

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Inappropriate for a given purpose, situation or occasion

grey^UK

gray^US

contrary to the rules

unfavorable^US

out of character with

like a fish out of water

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Domineering or overbearing in one's treatment of others

throwing weight around

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Causing disruption or annoyance through being unwelcome or uninvited

chiseling^US

chiselling^UK

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Honest and straightforward in speech or behavior

straight from the shoulder

not afraid to call a spade a spade

saying what one thinks

straight to the point

straight-out

speaking as one finds

laying it on the line

not beating around the bush

point blank

calling spade a spade

telling it like it is

straight-from-the-shoulder

not beating about the bush

meaning what one says

calling a spade a spade

speaking straight from the shoulder

not pulling any punches

straight from shoulder

regular

for real

no beating around the bush

honourable^UK

honorable^US

brief and to the point

not mincing one's words

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(of activity) Sluggish or slow-moving

lacklustre^UK

lackluster^US

paralyzed^US

paralysed^UK

labored^US

laboured^UK

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