as in ungraciously
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-naturedly
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Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to people calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over lawmakers’ allowances.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
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Aimee Lou Wood, the British breakout star of The White Lotus season three, said Saturday Night Live has apologized after unkindly parodying her during Saturday night’s show.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Apr. 2025
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She was always being driven mad by Kubrick, very unkindly.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2024
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Not long ago, such an idea would have seemed dystopian; now, that’s just the everyday gig economy whittled down to its most cruelly efficient form.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2025
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These are their memories of a player taken cruelly at the age of only 28.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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Inside the agency, Dudek, ill-prepared for leadership or for DOGE’s murky agenda, was stumbling through the chaos in part by creating some of his own.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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Without the well or ill-intentioned guide of theological doctrine, everything stands poised to become a metaphor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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But the real story is Byrne, tragic but ruthlessly funny, telling more story with the twitchy skin under her eyes than other actresses can tell in a whole movie.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Law portrays a younger Putin, depicted as ruthlessly calculating and enigmatic, while Alicia Vikander plays Ksenia, Baranov’s lover and moral counterweight.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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But recent studies have shown how social media algorithms mercilessly push manosphere content toward young men — and that content is quickly interspersed with other even more extremist ideas.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Earlier this month, a music video mercilessly mocking Sanseitō went viral, suggesting the potential for containing its rise.—
Jeff Kingston,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
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Another long-leaf cactus, the Spanish bayonet, was diabolically equipped with a blood groove.—
Tim Kelly,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
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But at the time, training such a multilayer neural network was fiendishly difficult.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Ill-naturedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-naturedly. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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