unkind

Example Sentences

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Some of the online judgment may seem unkind, but in today’s market, the criticism may be valid.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Ellie married Dillahan because “it would have been unkind on her part if she’d said no.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Social media has been particularly unkind to teenage girls, putting rocket fuel onto the ordinary adolescent stressors of physical awkwardness, the sadness of comparison and the fireworks of inter-friendship conflicts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

He also shares a desire to cultivate more patience and to become more willing to challenge unkind behavior.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2025

With a quick toss of her red hair, she proceeded to answer her own question with such feeling that no one who heard could be so unkind as to ever forget.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord