Example Sentences

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There’s always been more to Garrone’s movies than unkindness, but he has a striking facility for crystallizing human baseness in images that are both specific and laden with surplus meaning.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024

Lynn, son of former Chargers coach Anthony Lynn, has Bruins defensive personnel on the field and the sideline constantly cackling and crowing like, well, an unkindness of ravens.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023

So yeah, his politics were pretty far on the right wing, but there was no unkindness in him.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2022

It was a moment of careless unkindness, a way of noting that an unspoken rule — stupid, pointless, insidious — has been violated.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2021

“It’d be doin’ ’em an unkindness, Hermione,” he said gravely, threading a massive bone needle with thick yellow yarn.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling