unkind
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If you do not address your feelings and process them, they will manifest themselves in other ways — an unkind remark or a silent fury.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 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
England did not want to go through the play-offs but were given an unkind draw in the qualifying groups when they met world champions Spain.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
She will wear a tennis skirt and praise me and caution me and hover over me until I’m unkind to her.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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
For the American people to turn their back on them would be the unkindest cut of all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
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
Too old to seize a moment, too active to be rediscovered, he’s been subject over the past two decades to some of the unkindest reviews ever delivered to a talent of his magnitude.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2021
Maybe the unkindest cut came after the relocation vote at the Board of Governors meeting in Dallas.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2020
"Now that's what I call the unkindest cut of all," replied Davy.
From The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners by Herbert Carter
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