unkindness

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Recent Examples of unkindness 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
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
  • Such rhetoric has fostered a climate where cruelty is normalized.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • His anguished mother insisted on an open-casket ceremony to show the world the gruesome cruelty of lynching.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe the symptoms of his cognitive decline are inextricable from what seemed to you to be his general self-absorption and thoughtlessness.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival—the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Herbert captures remarkable scenes of white visitors indulging in nostalgia for the Confederacy blithely unaware, seemingly, of the violence and inhumanity of the pre-Civil War era when millions of African Americans were enslaved.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Recently, fans and the media have been focusing more on him due to his recurring mistakes, apparently caused by carelessness with and without the ball, as well as his spotty health record.
    Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The sequence is incredibly disturbing, underlining the carelessness with which Prodigy has been treating these overgrown children.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Survivors describe ethnic cleansing of almost unimaginable savagery.
    Nicholas Kristof, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This, too, is where savagery lurks—in tedious, monotonous tasks.
    Seema Jilani August 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The brutality of the Ukrainian frontline The challenges facing foreign volunteer fighters on the battlefield extend well beyond their legal label.
    Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • For a long time, the book was consider unadaptable due to its brutality.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Unkindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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