unkindness
Example Sentences
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Nettled by similar unkindnesses perpetrated by the BBC, the Soviets last week struck back at their Western tormentors.
From Time Magazine Archive
In London, Verlaine could stand such unkindnesses no longer: he ran away.
From Time Magazine Archive
A series of petty slights, small unkindnesses, imbittered the mind of the poverty-stricken widow against her unmarried sisters, and her feeling was strongly inherited by her children.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill
Brave, strong, bully old boy, no one knows better than I do what a fight you have been making these last few years and how many unkindnesses fortune has done you.
From Letters of Franklin K. Lane by Wall, Louise Herrick
I understand—I can see; you brood on trifles, misunderstandings, unkindnesses you think them; though my mother never knew of them, or never gave them a second thought.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis
