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unkind

[uhn-kahynd] / ʌnˈkaɪnd /


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You are not being selfish, but you don’t want to be unkind.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

It’s the sort of line that doesn’t stand up to an unkind reading.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

"They've said some very unkind things about Britain, and also about the monarchy."

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

There’s no denying that as a comedian, he is often unkind.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Her face was neither kind nor unkind; if a face could look like distilled knowledge, it would be this.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

It’s not at all a serious remark, yet it’s a reflection of Stewart’s regular-guy populism — or, to be unkinder, provincialism.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021

“The cuts seem unkinder now than they’ve ever been,” said Jeff Shesol, a Democratic speechwriter.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2014

The new low, low hemline has been officially named the Midi, but many fashionplates have unkinder words for it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some months later, the women of Walsenburg dealt Mosco an even unkinder cut: they asked him to serve without any salary at all, and. then, when he refused, fired him outright.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one said unkinder things to my face than he did, and yet behind my back I knew that many a time he had made things smoother for me with his parents.

From Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story by Amy Le Feuvre

But for Subaru’s tree-hugging clientele, the unkindest cut has been fuel economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

I am talking about some of the unkindest cuts, the curious tinkering I have of late experienced with texts of Shakespeare, changes that come across as willful rather than illuminating, silly instead of clever.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022

In the unkindest cut of all, these critics say that Glantz has become an unwitting ally of the tobacco industry.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2021

Maybe the unkindest cut came after the relocation vote at the Board of Governors meeting in Dallas.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2020

This is the unkindest cut of all, for it says we shall carry a "reasonable quantity of luggage."

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various




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