unkindness
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
