a. (UN-1 7.)
1823. Byron, Island, IV. xiii. But calm and careless heaved the wave below, Eternal with unsympathetic flow.
1857. Mrs. Gaskell, C. Brontë, II. 327. The critical, unsympathetic public.
1867. H. Macmillan, Bible Teach., ii. 36. We are not left in the power of blind unsympathetic nature.
Hence Unsympathetically adv.
1861. Dickens, Gt. Expect., vii. The ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.