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unkindness
noun as in acrimony
noun as in cruelty
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noun as in hardness
noun as in meanness
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noun as in rigidity
noun as in rigorousness
noun as in rudeness
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noun as in savagery
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noun as in severity
noun as in sternness
noun as in strictness
noun as in stringency
noun as in toughness
noun as in truculence
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- animality
- barbarism
- barbarity
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- brutality
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- depravity
- despotism
- ferocity
- fierceness
- heartlessness
- inhumanity
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malice
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- persecution
- rancor
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- savagery
- severity
- spite
- spitefulness
- torture
- truculency
- unfeelingness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
Weak matches
noun as in truculency
Strong matches
- animality
- barbarism
- barbarity
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- brutality
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- depravity
- despotism
- ferocity
- fierceness
- heartlessness
- inhumanity
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malice
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- persecution
- rancor
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- savagery
- severity
- spite
- spitefulness
- torture
- truculence
- unfeelingness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
Weak matches
noun as in unpleasantness
Strongest matches
Strong match
Example Sentences
Their collective noun is an “unkindness” or — wait for it — a “conspiracy” of ravens.
All hail the dynamite alchemy of singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, actor-writer Paula Pell, actor and sometimes talk show host Busy Philipps and Tony-winning “Hamilton” star Renée Elise Goldsberry as their characters reconcile ambition, personality clashes and showbiz unkindness to live their best second-chance lives.
There’s always been more to Garrone’s movies than unkindness, but he has a striking facility for crystallizing human baseness in images that are both specific and laden with surplus meaning.
These behaviors lend credence to their collective characterization: A group of ravens is called an “unkindness.”
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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