unkind
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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
Some of the online judgment may seem unkind, but in today’s market, the criticism may be valid.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 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
I remind myself that he is not an unkind man; that, under other circumstances, I even like him.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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
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
The new low, low hemline has been officially named the Midi, but many fashionplates have unkinder words for it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Houses were always being taken in that paradise by wealthy persons from unkinder climates.
From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth
But for Subaru’s tree-hugging clientele, the unkindest cut has been fuel economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Like other prestige dramas' unkindest deaths, it may serve a higher purpose.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025
Maybe the unkindest cut came after the relocation vote at the Board of Governors meeting in Dallas.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2020
“We have found our Bard suffering ‘the unkindest cut of all,'” said the authors of the report, from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, stealing a line from “Julius Caesar.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2015
Hastings bent upon her the grieved look of a man who suffers mutely the most unkindest cut of all.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson
