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

Like the earlier movie, del Toro’s is based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham, a desperate, pitiless book filled with exotic slang and steeped in the soured milk of human unkindness.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

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

First had come the great wave, then Captain Ortega’s terrible unkindness, and now this dreadful blow: she must leave not only her family and town, but her country as well.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty