unkindness
Example Sentences
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But when an empathetic person suddenly withholds affection, it’s perceived as an act of unkindness.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025
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
That view absolves us of trying to understand the systemic source of those indignities as something other than unkindness.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2024
There’s always been more to Garrone’s movies than unkindness, but he has a striking facility for crystallizing human baseness in images that are both specific and laden with surplus meaning.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
If only I could have said that on the day, I think, because my father never had a bad word for anybody or a true act of unkindness.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
