unkind

Example Sentences

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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

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 was unkind, for Morison’s is a magnificent example of history as it is no longer written.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 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

No one ever attacked me at Montgomery or said an unkind word.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals