unkindness
Example Sentences
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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
Second, you are plainly stating that you won’t put up with unkindness, so they can expect you to say something every time.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 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
First had come the great wave, then Captain Ortega’s terrible unkindness, and now this dreadful blow: she must leave not only her family and town, but her country as well.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
