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In this volatile environment, comments that appear to minimize or frame the shooting insensitively—like Matt Gutman's—can quickly become career-ending.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025 -
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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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
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Tabloids and magazines regularly reported on the state of the relationship, often unkindly.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb. 2026
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As a young schoolboy, Davidson was often cruelly stigmatized because no one had bothered to diagnose his disorder.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
23 Feb. 2026
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Her boss behaves erratically and cruelly, the house has strange rules and Millie is forced to sleep in a small, locked attic room.—
Ashlee Conour,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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Lilian, looking back ten years later, from a New Jersey college town where Tesla Cybertrucks prowled, felt that the Bay Area before the 2016 election had been as innocent as the children in her minivan, as well-intentioned, as ill-prepared.—
Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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Even Harbour’s physicality — the actor has put on weight and spends much of the show in ill-fitting attire or partially disrobed — is meant to elicit more than one response.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Feb. 2026
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But, to get there, Brontë enlists some of the ubiquitous tropes of her time—the foundling hero, for example—only to ruthlessly unravel them.—
Radhika Jones,
New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2026
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Technology’s ruthlessly deflationary force will first wipe out travel booking platforms, Citrini predicted, with agents able to assemble a complete travel itinerary by the fourth quarter of 2026, faster and cheaper than any platform could.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
23 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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His father was the warden there, and Dominique was teased for it mercilessly at school.—
Gaby Wood,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2026
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Madrid are actually owned by 80,000 members who demand the highest standards — and are surrounded by a voracious local media who mercilessly criticise anyone who even temporarily falls short.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2026
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Varner described the creatures as diabolically cunning, destructive, and nocturnal.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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That’s par for the course in a facility where all of the nurses are angels (Fisayo Akinade’s diabolically endearing Nurse Angel in particular), and nobody else seems to be sick.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
11 Dec. 2025
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The first hour, set at a resort that’s like a singles cruise through the Twilight Zone (or Bachelor in Paradise beamed in from a brutal alternate universe), contains some of the most pitilessly funny scenes of the filmmaker’s career.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Ill-naturedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-naturedly. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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