unkind
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"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
Ellie married Dillahan because “it would have been unkind on her part if she’d said no.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
Head teacher Tom Beveridge, said it had "reduced the number of incidents of children being unkind to each other online and, anecdotally in lessons, students are more focused".
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
With a quick toss of her red hair, she proceeded to answer her own question with such feeling that no one who heard could be so unkind as to ever forget.
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
But no, the heaven of "Charlie Tolliver's" presence and commands--she seemed to have taken entire possession of him--lifted and sustained him above the clouds of all unkinder things.
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
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
This is the unkindest cut of all, for it says we shall carry a "reasonable quantity of luggage."
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
