unkind
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You never had an unkind word or a sour expression for anyone, and you always displayed exemplary conduct, despite all the challenges you faced.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
If you do not address your feelings and process them, they will manifest themselves in other ways — an unkind remark or a silent fury.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
It’s the sort of line that doesn’t stand up to an unkind reading.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
"They've said some very unkind things about Britain, and also about the monarchy."
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Not a one was unkind enough to mention why he was out roaming the streets.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
It’s not at all a serious remark, yet it’s a reflection of Stewart’s regular-guy populism — or, to be unkinder, provincialism.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021
“The cuts seem unkinder now than they’ve ever been,” said Jeff Shesol, a Democratic speechwriter.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2014
The new low, low hemline has been officially named the Midi, but many fashionplates have unkinder words for it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some months later, the women of Walsenburg dealt Mosco an even unkinder cut: they asked him to serve without any salary at all, and. then, when he refused, fired him outright.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ah! but any medicine HE had prescribed would have done me good, and that makes it all the unkinder."
From A Simpleton by Charles Reade
But for Subaru’s tree-hugging clientele, the unkindest cut has been fuel economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
In the unkindest cut of all, these critics say that Glantz has become an unwitting ally of the tobacco industry.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2021
Maybe the unkindest cut came after the relocation vote at the Board of Governors meeting in Dallas.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2020
“We have found our Bard suffering ‘the unkindest cut of all,'” said the authors of the report, from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, stealing a line from “Julius Caesar.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2015
Child, that is the unkindest cut of all!
From Girl Alone by Anne Austin
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