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unkind

[uhn-kahynd] / ʌnˈkaɪnd /


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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

History has been unkind to the former first lady, who has been routinely belittled, mocked and misjudged.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

But no one here is out to humiliate anyone, which is nasty and unkind and not at all the sort of humor Lawrence trades in.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 8, 2026

Head teacher Tom Beveridge, said it had "reduced the number of incidents of children being unkind to each other online and, anecdotally in lessons, students are more focused".

From BBC Feb. 13, 2026

“Poor Incorrigibles! It would be terribly unkind of me to make a fuss about turning sixteen, given the circumstances.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

"Ah! but any medicine HE had prescribed would have done me good, and that makes it all the unkinder."

From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles

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

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

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

“But that is the unkindest cut of all.”

From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks




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