unkindness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkindness
Noun
  • 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
  • But the other pole, blithe unconcern, carries its own dangers.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • The driver was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on suspicion of DUI and two counts of willful cruelty to a child.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Norwalk police on April 22 arrested her on one count of animal cruelty, records show.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Where are the voices of outrage at this inhumanity?
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • The cruelty and inhumanity of these actions have no match in American history.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • The savagery on display should be terrifying, but in a world where humans are so divorced from their actions, everything feels plastic, random, pointless.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 July 2025
  • In the 2000 Loser, Jason Biggs plays Paul, a sweet but unhip Midwestern kid who gets a scholarship to NYU, only to be met with the sneering savagery of his rich-kid roommates.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • The spectacle was carried out with breathtaking emptiness, revealing American values while glorifying Putin’s brutality.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The city has previously denied using tows to make money and has denied claims that Furman was engaged in police brutality, noting he was investigated by Michigan State Police in one incident but cleared.
    Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As in Squid Game, dystopian drama often plays on the barbarity of entertainment, impossible promises of curing human weakness, and finds salvation in our best qualities: solidarity, compassion, and unity.
    Rory Doherty, Time, 27 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • However, for anyone who has observed Trump’s public life, his malignancy and malevolence have always been obvious.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Despite that virulence, some forms of plague did ultimately die out.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 May 2025
  • 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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“Unkindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindness. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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