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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

Some of the online judgment may seem unkind, but in today’s market, the criticism may be valid.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

But no one here is out to humiliate anyone, which is nasty and unkind and not at all the sort of humor Lawrence trades in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026

You are being very vulgar and very unkind.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

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

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

The new low, low hemline has been officially named the Midi, but many fashionplates have unkinder words for it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Roger is very unkind: but floods and falling houses are unkinder still.

From The Settlers at Home by Joseph Martin Kronheim

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 need people to stop this unkindest cut of all.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017

Hastings bent upon her the grieved look of a man who suffers mutely the most unkindest cut of all.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson