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as in unconcern
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as in cruelty
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkindness
Noun
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But the other pole, blithe unconcern, carries its own dangers.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025 -
Not ten feet away, a man moved his bowels beside a street near Union Square, while pedestrians passed him with the unconcern of people already elsewhere, émigrés to a pixelated country beyond the reach of others’ desperation.—
Andrew Kay,
Harpers Magazine,
28 May 2025
Noun
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Perhaps the surprise return of Egghead Vance will turn it into symbol of resistance, seen at every demonstration against the cruelties and greed of the Trump machine.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2025
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Other laws set to take effect on July 1 in Florida include House Bill 255, establishing harsher penalties for animal cruelty, and House Bill 653, setting new aggravating factors when determining whether someone convicted of a capital felony should receive the death penalty.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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Host Andrew Zimmern broke from his teleprompter script to decry the inhumanity of ICE raids.—
Caroline Hatchett,
Robb Report,
19 June 2025
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Another recurring theme in this episode was Lois’ inhumanity.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
23 Oct. 2024
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Known for its savagery and the popularity level of both fighters at the time.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Slaveholders first developed the trope in the 1790s in their representations of the emergent nation of Haiti, framing it as a dangerous site of social experimentation and savagery where Black freedom would inexorably lead to white death.—
Time,
Time,
9 June 2025
Noun
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What society in the world would not see its heart grow cold by such brutality?—
Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
14 June 2025
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Rather, its dignity and resilience will increase, and the Israeli entity will regret its barbarism and brutality.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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Enforcing immigration policy does not have to be inhumane, but the Trump administration is gloating in the very barbarity.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
14 June 2025
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The Indigenous peoples who survived all this barbarity are now facing the same list of homicidal intolerance.—
Kevin Giraud,
Variety,
7 June 2025
Noun
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The filmmakers know exactly how to leverage Hawkins’s warm, naturalistic screen presence, using her offbeat sweetness to keep the audience guessing as to her character’s exact level of malevolence.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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In the room with us in Valencia, the dolls eyes’ are hypnotic, carrying a trace of malevolence.—
Joshua Rothkopf,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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While VUMs require more testing to establish their true risks to public health, VOIs are explicitly confirmed to have genetic changes that affect virus characteristics like transmissibility and virulence.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
9 June 2025
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The results revealed that pla depletion decreases the virulence and increases the length of plague infections in mice.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
31 May 2025
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“Unkindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindness. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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