unkindness

Example Sentences

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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

It was a moment of careless unkindness, a way of noting that an unspoken rule — stupid, pointless, insidious — has been violated.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2021

Ghosting a close friend is not a kind thing to do, and although there may be some circumstances in which it’s a necessary unkindness, I don’t think it’s called for here.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2021

“It’d be doin’ ’em an unkindness, Hermione,” he said gravely, threading a massive bone needle with thick yellow yarn.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling