unkind
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There’s no denying that as a comedian, he is often unkind.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Some of the online judgment may seem unkind, but in today’s market, the criticism may be valid.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
He also shares a desire to cultivate more patience and to become more willing to challenge unkind behavior.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2025
You can find cruel, judgmental and unkind people everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
I told Hamlet my plan, disguising its motive, for I did not want him to think me . too unkind.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
"Don't be unkinder than you can help," reproachfully.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
For the American people to turn their back on them would be the unkindest cut of all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Like other prestige dramas' unkindest deaths, it may serve a higher purpose.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025
I am talking about some of the unkindest cuts, the curious tinkering I have of late experienced with texts of Shakespeare, changes that come across as willful rather than illuminating, silly instead of clever.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022
Too old to seize a moment, too active to be rediscovered, he’s been subject over the past two decades to some of the unkindest reviews ever delivered to a talent of his magnitude.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2021
Oh, Jane, that was the most unkindest cut of all.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
