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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.
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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.
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Daron James,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
That subordinate might go home and treat his spouse with unkindness.
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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
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The book’s occasional oases of self-examination are surrounded by dusty expanses of omission and unconcern.
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Whatever the reason, Maxwell’s strength and the shark’s apparent unconcern put one of Maxwell’s friends in danger.
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These passages highlight the typically human cruelty and hypocrisy of fighting for one’s own liberty while denying it to one’s neighbors.
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Last week, Dixon also pleaded no contest to the three felony animal cruelty charges.
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The thoughtlessness with which this bride coerced you into subsidizing her wedding was stunning.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once, administrators confronted him about the carelessness of his grading.
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That's not chance or carelessness.
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This is pure hatred, and condemning this kind of inhumanity shouldn’t be hard.
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Their willingness to film their inhumanity echoed the Nazis of the Third Reich, who likewise filmed their mass atrocities.
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Sometimes the irony turns bitter and, with a typically Eastern European sensibility, highlights the paradoxes of institutions, as well as the madness and meanness born from the pursuit and preservation of power.
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After 1965, when African Americans’ right to vote was constitutionally recognized, the meanness continued.
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This savagery can last up to a week before the mature larvae fall to the ground.
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While our money would be on The Last Son of Krypton in a main card matchup, Lobo fights dirty with a level of primal savagery that just might put the Big Blue Boy Scout and his cousin down for a few rounds.
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“Unkindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindness. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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