Aware
Aware adjective - Having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind.
Nearby Word: awareness
Insensitive
Insensitive adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.
Both words in one sentence
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When Sunfire asks why he was considered, Wolverine responds by calling him a "walking atomic bomb." Quite a few people online pointed out that the line is either incredibly dickish or very insensitive depending on whether or not the writer was aware of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Andrea dressing down Jamie and Cici for their affairs with musicians is quite harsh and insensitive, but she does have a point about keeping professional discipline with music artists, aware that their emotional connection prevents them from being taken seriously and being effective at their work.
Source: Series / Vinyl - Innocently Insensitive: Glenn is the rare character who tries to learn from his mistakes when he's made aware of this trope, but then he tends to swing wildly in the other direction end up being Innocently Over-Sensitive, to the embarrassment of whoever he's trying to appease.
Source: Series / Superstore
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