unkindness
Example Sentences
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But when an empathetic person suddenly withholds affection, it’s perceived as an act of unkindness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
That view absolves us of trying to understand the systemic source of those indignities as something other than unkindness.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2024
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.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
When that alpha dynamic is out of balance, it results in bullying, unkindness and controlling behavior, which we see in children often.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
Yet it was not an unkindness on either occasion, for the barn was cozy and filled with clean hay and friendly animals.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
