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as in unconcern
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as in cruelty
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Recent Examples of unkindness
Can the bewitching kindness be disassociated from the defining unkindness at the heart of Southern history, visible in the portraits of Confederates in the lobby of the Lafayette Hotel?
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Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
What starts as a joke can slowly dull empathy, making unkindness feel routine.
—Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 28 Aug. 2025
But visual effects provided the heavy lifting where the team, overseen by VFX supervisor Tom Turnbull, filled the sky with CG unkindness and mapped the chaos to characters fighting for their life.
—Daron James, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
That subordinate might go home and treat his spouse with unkindness.
—Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2025
Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
What starts as a joke can slowly dull empathy, making unkindness feel routine.
—Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 28 Aug. 2025
But visual effects provided the heavy lifting where the team, overseen by VFX supervisor Tom Turnbull, filled the sky with CG unkindness and mapped the chaos to characters fighting for their life.
—Daron James, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
That subordinate might go home and treat his spouse with unkindness.
—Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkindness
Noun
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The book’s occasional oases of self-examination are surrounded by dusty expanses of omission and unconcern.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2025
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Whatever the reason, Maxwell’s strength and the shark’s apparent unconcern put one of Maxwell’s friends in danger.—
Donald Millus,
Outdoor Life,
3 July 2025
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In The Maids, for instance, Williams has applied a dewy contemporary sheen to Genet’s grungy French cruelty.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
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Baseball is a beautiful game, with cruelty sometimes just around the corner.—
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
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The thoughtlessness with which this bride coerced you into subsidizing her wedding was stunning.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
23 May 2026
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Its furnishings were anything but describable, having been conceived, manufactured, shipped, and sold in various states of thoughtlessness, greed, and indifference.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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These young graduates start out naive about the heartlessness of the corporate world and harbor illusory hopes for success in unforgiving professions.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.—
Ginny Tapley Takemori
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Their willingness to film their inhumanity echoed the Nazis of the Third Reich, who likewise filmed their mass atrocities.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
14 May 2026
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Consider artificial intelligence phone systems that only add to the frustration and inhumanity of our lives.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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After 1965, when African Americans’ right to vote was constitutionally recognized, the meanness continued.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 May 2026
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The collective community is more important than the individual, and care trumps meanness.—
Sarah Wang,
PEOPLE,
16 May 2026
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Once, administrators confronted him about the carelessness of his grading.—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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That's not chance or carelessness.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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In the first period, the Avs looked like the Avs again, attacking the Strip with the speed, swagger and savagery of a starving polar bear.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
25 May 2026
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Adapted for television by Adolescence co-creator, Emmy winner Jack Thorne, in Lord of the Flies, innocence descends into savagery when a group of English schoolboys becomes desert island castaways.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
6 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Unkindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindness. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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