unkind
adjective
lacking in kindness or mercy; severe.
unkindness
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a word derived from
unkind.
Example Sentences
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That view absolves us of trying to understand the systemic source of those indignities as something other than unkindness.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2024
We’ve entered a land whose population has been ground down by unkindness.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
Like the earlier movie, del Toro’s is based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham, a desperate, pitiless book filled with exotic slang and steeped in the soured milk of human unkindness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
But if you act with kindness and compassion—and even love—in the face of unkindness and hatred, you will be doing something remarkable, truly doing Good.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2021
I wonder if she would have been so kind to an outcast like Madeline if she had never known what unkindness felt like.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
