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

Lynn, son of former Chargers coach Anthony Lynn, has Bruins defensive personnel on the field and the sideline constantly cackling and crowing like, well, an unkindness of ravens.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023

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

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