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
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
So yeah, his politics were pretty far on the right wing, but there was no unkindness in him.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022
Second, you are plainly stating that you won’t put up with unkindness, so they can expect you to say something every time.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021
I do not believe they ever meant unkindness.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
