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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-naturedly
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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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Immigrant rights advocates have criticized the practice as inhumane and say ICE has cruelly targeted people following the rules by turning up to their court dates to meet quotas.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2026
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This year’s ceremony was not perfect, of course — there were some sound-production issues, there were some presenters with milquetoast bits (as always), and a few winners were played off the stage with cruelly abrupt music cues.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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As agencies recover from that recent blow, issues of regional collaboration, local needs and limited funding have come to a head in sprawling, fast-growing metro areas ill-suited for efficient mass transit.—
Lilly Kersh,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Last year, a 9-year-old Mennonite child in the state of Chihuahua fell ill after visiting relatives in a Mennonite community in Gaines County, Texas.—
Katie Silver,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2026
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What does ruthlessly cloning the same mouse tell us about our biology?—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
26 Mar. 2026
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The Anabaptists were a radical nonconformist sect that took the egalitarian, pacifist, and renunciatory injunctions of the Bible seriously and tried to organize communal living, before being ruthlessly persecuted by the authorities and other Protestant sects.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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At his previous school, he was mercilessly bullied.—
Heidi Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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When these middlemen resisted British pressure, Britain protected its commercial interests mercilessly and violently.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 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 Apr. 2026.
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