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
We’ve entered a land whose population has been ground down by unkindness.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
So yeah, his politics were pretty far on the right wing, but there was no unkindness in him.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022
Like the earlier movie, del Toro’s is based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham, a desperate, pitiless book filled with exotic slang and steeped in the soured milk of human unkindness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
Yet it was not an unkindness on either occasion, for the barn was cozy and filled with clean hay and friendly animals.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
