How to Use unkindly in a Sentence

unkindly

adverb
  • Laughter can be used unkindly, too, to wound or to exclude someone from a group.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Stern looks unkindly on buyers who covet the investment rather than the brand.
    Carol Besler, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Don’t waste your practice (or time, or life) on someone unkind, though — and please see how unkindly your partner treats you.
    Washington Post, 30 May 2021
  • Approval ratings might drop as more people will look unkindly at some X-Men.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 24 Aug. 2022
  • There amid the waxworks, Herman plays the court jester, as a few intimates unkindly note.
    New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
  • This is not the first time Hailey Bieber shut down the notion that her husband of two years treats her unkindly.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The ops people get upset that the engineers are treating them unkindly and things spiral downward from there.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Yet, since the post went up, some people have unkindly critiqued her cheeks, nose, chin and complexion, while others wonder what the fuss is all about.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2026
  • So, any threats to Levesque’s new creative control would also likely be looked upon unkindly by talent.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2023
  • At the readings, held in bars, there were internecine squabbles and dramas, and some of the poets treated Wong unkindly.
    Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • Mischa was one of the young women stalked by photographers and treated unkindly by online bloggers.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • History will likely not only look unkindly at Trump, but those staring steadfastly at the floor, too.
    Isobel Thompson, vanityfair.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Music history tends to look unkindly on such messy, inconsistent figures, preferring those who put the brand of genius on works large and small.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
  • As a film historian, he was known for championing movies, directors and screenwriters who had been treated unkindly by others.
    New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Your former friend has behaved unkindly by dropping you so suddenly and refusing an explanation.
    Ask Amy, al, 19 May 2019
  • China imports significant amounts of oil from Iran, and might look unkindly on efforts to destabilize its government.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2021
  • India’s Supreme Court ought to look unkindly on such legal sleight of hand, which would allow any other state to be similarly conjured out of existence.
    The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Animated violence includes characters bullying and speaking unkindly to one another.
    Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022

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