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unkindness
[uhn-kahynd] 
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acrimony
[ak-ruh-moh-nee]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nasty behavior, speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, animosity, antipathy, asperity, astringency, belligerence, bitterness, churlishness, crankiness, harshness, ill will, irascibility, malevolence, malice, mordancy, peevishness, rancor, rudeness, sarcasm, spite, tartness, unkindness, virulence |
| Antonyms: | civility, courtesy, diplomacy, flattery, kindness, politeness, sweetness |
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
| Synonyms: | abjection, avarice, baseness, beastliness, churlishness, closeness, contemptibleness, corruptness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, ill-temper, infamy, iniquity, knavishness, lowness, malice, malignity, miserliness, parsimony, pettiness, rapacity, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, nobility, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | rudeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impoliteness |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, asperity, audacity, bad manners, barbarity, bluntness, boldness, boorishness, brass, cheek, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disdain, disrespect, effrontery, grossness, harshness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, irritability, misbehavior, nerve*, officiousness, shamelessness, sharpness, tactlessness, ungraciousness, unkindness, unmannerliness, vulgarity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | severity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | asperity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigor, sharpness, sternness, strictness, unkindness |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pity, softness |
| Main Entry: | unpleasantness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfriendliness |
| Synonyms: | animosity, antagonism, hostility, unkindness |
| Antonyms: | friendliness, kindness |
| Main Entry: | hardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | rigidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | rigorousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | savagery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelty |
| Synonyms: | animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutality, brutishness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity, insensibility, insensitiveness, malice, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, persecution, rancor, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, severity, spite, spitefulness, torture, truculence, truculency, unfeelingness, unkindness, venom, viciousness, wickedness |
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