What's the difference between icily and uncaring?

Icily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an icy manner; coldly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aung San Suu Kyi's upbringing was pure south Asian elite and this shows, at least in her icily correct interactions at the press conferences and functions she is now having to attend.
  • (2) Solomon replied icily, "I don't think it's your job to question my domestic arrangement.
  • (3) It is an unpleasantly humid day in the Hell's Kitchen neighbourhood of Manhattan, but icily air-conditioned in the studios where Oliver writes and records most of his material.
  • (4) "Nick Clegg," he says icily, "is a betrayal of the Liberal tradition.
  • (5) "Well no one knows who said it," Heseltine demurs, but I'm not sure how convincingly, because moments later he adds icily, "I think he was very lucky that he had a father that could afford to buy his.
  • (6) In parting she replies, icily and unanswerably, “I am gonna kill your play.” This critic’s name is Tabitha, as in the witch..
  • (7) Cook has shown an entirely new side of himself in the past three years – no longer just the icily efficient backroom manager but a man who embraces his employees when he sees them, talks passionately about his political beliefs, puts his money where his mouth is and understands how the power of his position can effect change.

Uncaring


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But this ad certainly does not shy away from its attempt to paint Romney as an uncaring, wealthy elitist – a task in which it is greatly helped by Romney's own words.
  • (2) The striking images of Cameron posing on the ice with huskies on the way to visiting a melting glacier in 2006 marked a turning point for the Conservatives, who had been seen by many voters as uncaring.
  • (3) Those who separated from an uncaring partner reported a distinct improvement in depressive symptoms.
  • (4) The health care system has been increasingly criticized for its uncaring providers, low quality of care, and unequal access.
  • (5) No such treatment for them; only an uncertain future with few prospects of re-employment, and uncaring treatment from the DWP, which is proactively cutting benefits.
  • (6) The clinical impression that phobic patients perceive their parents as being uncaring and overprotective was investigated in a controlled study of eighty-one phobic patients.
  • (7) It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero."
  • (8) The NDs, by contrast, were more likely than their controls to report their parents as uncaring and overprotective.
  • (9) He said: “The Conservatives are reckless, divisive and uncaring.
  • (10) Emancipatory interventions are provided to help nurses launch a new direction toward freeing their clients, rather than herding them through an uncaring and disjointed health and social service system.
  • (11) But … if the mutterers continue to mutter then all they will do is stop places like Neath [Hain’s south Wales constituency] from being liberated from this destructive, uncaring, unfair government that is destroying people’s lives.” He added: “I don’t think Labour party members will forgive some self-indulgent MP muttering to a journalist and producing a headline in the Daily Mail when those newspapers have always been Labour’s enemies.
  • (12) In the maternity unit, staff on the postnatal ward were found to be uncaring, while in the labour ward inspectors found blood stains on a stainless steel bowl in a room that staff said was ready to use.
  • (13) They noticed that 19 of the 20 patients were mentally slower; 11 were markedly aggressive and 8 had become placid and uncaring about family problems.
  • (14) "I have been in parliament for 40 years and I have never dealt with a government, Labour or Conservative, that has been so heartless and uncaring about individual immigration cases as this one," he said.
  • (15) But such a mood swing often occurs at the end of Labour administrations and the beginning of Conservative ones, and often reverses, into distaste at an "uncaring" government, once the British right has been in power for a few years.
  • (16) According to examination results higher DMF mean value, less uncared of teeth with caries (D) and, in the age group of 19 years and above 30 years, more edentulousness has been found than with healthy individuals.
  • (17) NHS inspectors have uncovered "a catalogue of failings" at a London hospital including uncaring staff, blood-stained equipment, poor hygiene standards, patients not being helped to eat and a high mortality rate.
  • (18) In the second group, B, the wound was left undressed and "uncared" for 24 to 36 hours after surgery.
  • (19) They seek to paint the supporters of sound finances as selfish, or uncaring.
  • (20) She has frequently been described to me as untrustworthy, corrupt and uncaring, the epitome of a rotten political establishment.

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