pseudosensitive

English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ sensitive.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pseudosensitive (comparative more pseudosensitive, superlative most pseudosensitive)

1. appealing to a superficial or exaggerated need for tact
   • 1999, David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 289:

     And yes and don't worry I'm aware of how all this sounds and can well imagine the judgments you're forming from the way I'm characterizing what drew me to her but if I'm really to explain this to you as requested then I have no choice but to be brutally candid rather than observing the pseudosensitive niceties of euphemism.