unkind

Example Sentences

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

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Social media has been particularly unkind to teenage girls, putting rocket fuel onto the ordinary adolescent stressors of physical awkwardness, the sadness of comparison and the fireworks of inter-friendship conflicts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

“This is an attempt to try to make a very rough and unkind world filled with a little bit more love and laughter,” Poehler said of her show’s mission.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 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

But Ophie mostly knew who it was by the words the men were saying: words that were unkind at their heart, the kind of words that bruised and jabbed just by being spoken.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland