unkindness

Example Sentences

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Lynn, son of former Chargers coach Anthony Lynn, has Bruins defensive personnel on the field and the sideline constantly cackling and crowing like, well, an unkindness of ravens.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023

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

So yeah, his politics were pretty far on the right wing, but there was no unkindness in him.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2022

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

If only I could have said that on the day, I think, because my father never had a bad word for anybody or a true act of unkindness.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak