What's the difference between uncaring and unfeeling?

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.

Unfeeling


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.
  • (a.) Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs … The abiding sin of the government is not that some ministers are rich, but that it seems unable to manage its affairs competently."
  • (2) "You have to be an unfeeling idiot, which we're not, to fail to recognise that the last few years have been tough economic times for people in many places all over the world," he said.
  • (3) I still remember the conversation, with nostalgia mingled with outrage at the unfeeling nature of capitalism.
  • (4) Mass education, economic crisis and unfeeling government have long constituted a fertile soil for the cults of authoritarianism and violence.
  • (5) Trierweiler is forever dashing into bathrooms and collapsing while Hollande is an unfeeling prig who either ignores her or tells her to stop being so melodramatic.
  • (6) It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs.
  • (7) It owes an apology to local authorities and to nation as a whole for this unthinking and unfeeling approach to the plight of some of the most vulnerable children in the world.
  • (8) Government Bond Markets: Unfeeling Psychopaths or Rational Keynesians?
  • (9) Such is the death of the high street: at one end, it evokes poignant nostalgia – at the other, outrage at the unfeeling nature of capitalism.
  • (10) In this regard the film’s psychologically dark and patricidal energies are inescapable: when pressed about his mother, Leon replies “let me tell you about my mother”, and blasts the inquiring blade runner in the groin; when Roy demands of Tyrell, “I want more life, fucker”, it’s the first and only swear word in the film, all the stronger for it, and for being addressed to a “father” who has unfeelingly engineered him, and not out of love fathered him at all.
  • (11) True villains and true psychopaths are, fortunately, rather rare; but, in the right circumstances, becoming unfeelingly obedient and inhuman in this way can become a common condition.
  • (12) Evidence had revealed the sons as "self-indulgent, substance-abusing, over-pampered" and depicted Adelson as a "harsh, demanding, unfeeling" person, the judge wrote.
  • (13) Poorly conceived messages that lack cultural, economic or social adaptation to the specified target population, authoritarian, unfeeling pedagogy, and inadequate educational tools lead to uncertain results.
  • (14) When Gould wrote a lengthy article for the New York Times in 2008 about her compulsion to reveal details of her private life online – she coined the term "oversharing" – more than 1,200 irate comments were left on the Times website condemning her "self-exposure" and calling her everything from a "moronic juvenile" to an "unfeeling, self-absorbed unsavoury clod".
  • (15) There is the intention to be fair - even to the hated bourgeois parents of the cool and apparently unfeeling wife who is at length brought to heel by a miscarriage.
  • (16) Britain wasn't quite the 1963 Wyoming depicted in Brokeback Mountain, but it, too, contained its stories of sex thwarted, love irredeemably lost and lives made grey by unfeeling law.
  • (17) Senior members of the nursing staff were felt to be unfeeling in dealing with the distress of their juniors when laying out deceased patients.
  • (18) "She has been attacked for being cold or unfeeling but she couldn't show the regime she was suffering.