unkindness

Example Sentences

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The hog jokes are, actually, very funny, but more impressive is the indifference he’s maintained around unkindness from internet strangers.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2024

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

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2022

The common defense against an accusation of unkindness — let's call it the Jerk's Rejoinder — is some version of, “You're too sensitive,” or, “You can't take a joke.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022

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

The checkout lady at the grocery store would be rude to me and her simple unkindness would unnerve me for the rest of the day because I never knew—I had no way of knowing—

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi