How To Use Unkind In A Sentence
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I believe that we will be judged on this record and not by unkind and unjustified personal remarks in the press.
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Without wishing to be unkind, it was student vegetable gloop (carrot, courgette, mushroom, turnip and barley in tomato sauce) with little herby scone things on the top.
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Don't jeer at the person who came last in the race - it's very unkind.
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Against any tendency to naturalize evil, Julian sees evil as profoundly unnatural, unkind.
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Nay, I know that you shall not find him in Mansoul, for he is departed and gone; yea, and gone for the faults of the elders, and for that they rewarded his grace with unsufferable unkindness.
The Holy War
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Shame on you for being so unkind.
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She tries not to read about herself and avoids all social media, but gets as upset as anyone else when people say unkind things.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind.
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It's so easy to get into a spiral of dark and unkind thoughts about yourself.
Times, Sunday Times
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She tries not to read about herself and avoids all social media, but gets as upset as anyone else when people say unkind things.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cut and come again, 444. beard of formal, 69. him out in little stars, 107. is the branch, 41. loaf, to steal a shive of a, 104. most unkindest, of all, 113. take the short, 753.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
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At the time, you were the butt of some very unkind jokes?
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Positive emotions produce kind, humble, rational and wise people. Negative emotions create unkind, arrogant, irrational and foolish people. Dr T.P.Chia
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‘Oh, child, come away from there,’ admonished a cracked, though not unkindly voice.
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Unkindness, especially unkindness coupled with wit, is the greatest asset a courtier can possess.
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When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind.
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Thus, anytime you react by saying something unkind or withdrawing from your spouse, we guarantee you that your heart is closed.
Christianity Today
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It would be unkind to ask which of the "virtues" presided over Suzon's original acquaintance with her future husband, or whether the same or another undertook the charge of that wonderful six weeks 'abscondence of hers with him in this very uncle's house.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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They weren't unkind or petty or small.
Christianity Today
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the unkindest cut of all
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They quarrel with God as if he had dealt unkindly by them in forsaking them, whereas they by their idolatry had driven him from them; they have withdrawn from their allegiance to him, and so have thrown themselves out of this protection.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Children and servants are not exceptions to this general rule; and those of us who indulge in unkind expressions towards each other, lower ourselves more than we can, perhaps, understand in the opinions of those about us.
A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
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Farmers are always getting the blame for being unkind to the Environment, where in the majority of cases, the farmers are blameless.
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The policy of the ostrich prevails - though saying that that is probably unkind to ostriches.
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It refers to the unfriendly stare and unkind glances we sometimes get from people around us.
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The past few years have been unkind to young people buying property on the back of their earnings alone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Positive emotions produce kind, humble, rational and wise people. Negative emotions create unkind, arrogant, irrational and foolish people. Dr T.P.Chia
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She bore him three children - then found him gradually moving emotionally away from her, not unkindly, but with a cruel determination.
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It would be useless and unkind to perplex you with my literary troubles.
Letter 147
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You have heard, my good Miss Byron, that the friendship between Mr. Grandison and Signor Je-ronymo was twice broken off: once it was, by the unkindly-taken freedom of the expostulatory letter.
Sir Charles Grandison
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Her unkind remark bruised his feeling.
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And on her unkind face an expression of inexplicable satisfaction.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection
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And if I would please not to laugh (which was so unkind of me), had I never heard of imprisonments, and torturing with the cruel boot, and selling into slavery, where the sun and the lash outvied one another in cutting a man to pieces?
Lorna Doone
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Her voice is deep and husky enough for some unkind folk to liken it to a man's.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was indifferent, I said, about what he could say of me; and I was sure it could not be to my disadvantage; and as he had no reason to impute to me the forwardness which my unkind friends had so causelessly taxed me with.
Clarissa Harlowe
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They tend to give players opportunities and a run in the first team whereas others, and I am not being unkind, would chop and change.
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Yet notwithstanding this ominous comparison she presently made her appearance with her sleeves turned down, her black woollen dress "tidied," and a smile of fatigued but not unkindly welcome and protection on her face.
Cressy
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The eldest son in his family, Mohan had a bad time at school because his speech was the focus of many unkind taunts from his classmates.
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And calling his children "moronic" is just flat-out unkind.
Obama and daughters visit frozen custard shop
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And she beshrewed herself for so unkindly judging of his unkindness.
Tales from Shakespeare
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There's no need to fling his recent failure in his teeth in that unkind way.
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I'm being unkind, you say?
Times, Sunday Times
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He thinks her little pettish ways are mere girlish moods; but when she becomes his wife, and reveals her selfish and cruel nature, he is grieved and hurt to think fate has been so unkind to him.
Archive 2008-11-01
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Like her and many others of our generation, I knew all the old gang pretty well but have met only a handful of today's lot, Maginnes, the Attwoods, Hanna, Dallat, Ritchie, McGrady, McDonnell and yes the "hapless" - (unkind and overstated) - Durkan.
Slugger O'Toole
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A lot of unkind things were said.
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They need to ask themselves if they want to be forever known as unkind and uncaring, the lawmakers who while spending untold hundreds of billions of dollars to wage an unpopular war refused to approve a couple of extra billion over five years to provide health insurance for uncovered American children.
Leo W. Gerard: Congress is Daring to Knock the Chip Off Bush's Shoulder
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She was the butt of some very unkind jokes.
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Location: sarnia the tonal characteristics of marshall mg's have been described as unkind by many a player
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I must have done something very unkind to make him go away and leave me.
The Daisy Chain
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All last summer he'd been unkind to her.
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I felt that the entire environment at the university was ruled by fear and intimidation by the faculty, and some of the professors were very unkind to people like me who were struggling to keep up.
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And not all the second glances are unkind ones.
The Sun
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Please do not make things worse by doing this, it only harms the individual involved more and unkind words can scar quite deeply.
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The characters are flat 2D and well-animated as are the spell effects and whatnot, but time has passed unkindly, and the graphics lack any real zing.
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A proud, dark, ambitious man; a caballer against the state; infamous for his avarice and severity; a bad son, a bad brother, unkind and ungenerous to all his relatives — Isabel, I would die rather than have him.”
The Black Dwarf
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There are a lot of crazy, unkind people on there.
The Sun
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Jurgen" -- and she clung close to him -- "you were not ever unkind, not even for a moment.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
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Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia
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She was rather hurt by his unkind words.
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She ran to him for a kiss, but he thrust her aside unkindly.
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In the event of unkind weather conditions, the show will be moved indoors.
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He realized the unkindness of the remark and immediately regretted having hurt her with it.
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And she beshrewed herself for so unkindly judging of his unkindness.
Othello
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Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia
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Many of these, including tiding of magpies, murmuration of starlings, unkindness of ravens, and exaltation of larks, are poetic inventions that one can trace back to the fifteenth century.
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Her parents are dead, so she lives with an unkind aunt and her children.
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That would be unkind and cruel.
The Sun
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Sometimes she seems a very impersonal, even unkind, mother.
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It would be unkind to force you to speak of your torment twice.
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There are a lot of crazy, unkind people on there.
The Sun
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Certainly, that notion is incompatible with cruelty and unkindness to one another.
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It is cruel and unkind to go through them yet again.
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He realized the unkindness of the remark and immediately regretted having hurt her with it.
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Sensitive members of the Lords might wonder why people make unkind jokes about their age.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thank you for staying my hand when I was tempted to pen a nasty review of someone who'd written unkindly about my books.
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The teacher treats the children unkindly
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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't. Mitch Albom
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It's unkind to exult over a person one has beaten in a race.
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It's unkind to encourage people to write when there are too many unwanted books in the world already.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind.
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`They'll be too hard to eat even when they're cooked,' she said, but not unkindly, looking at the whitish green heap.
HUMAN VOICES
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So far fate has been very unkind to the four of them.
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Kids won't be kids forever and one way to kill your school in the long run is to be unkind and unlistening now or just to not educate them or tell them what they need to know.
Daily Spotlight on Education 11/22/2008
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Well, that's David of the University of Western Australia, professor of physics, with his gravity waves and I've just been joined by another prize winner who in fact, I don't want to put this unkindly, is a stirrer, is that right?
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It was unkind to denigrate her achievement.
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Also even a so-called unkind fate loses much of its power to wound, for the higher man rises into union with God and Infinite
Within You is the Power
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The one thing that people always unkindly say about her is, she's no supermodel, but she does scrub up well.
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Unkindness often reacts on the unkind person.
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The unkind weather is not likely to ease as schoolgoers count down the days to September 1.
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Could she speak pleasantly to her aunt? could she even look pleasantly at her? could she "forbear" all unkindness, even in thought?
Melbourne House
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Perhaps it would be gratuitously unkind to compare the intellects and depth of the two presidents.
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I delighted the heart of the bimbashi by a baksheesh of half a napoleon, which so astonished him that he hardly knew how to express himself, after all his bitter words and unkind intentions.
The Autobiography of a Journalist
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Against the fifth commandment: Disobedient to parents, and without natural affection -- astorgous, that is parents unkind and cruel to their children.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Aristaenetus had a fine young gentleman to his prisoner; [6292] in commiseration of his youth and person he let him loose, to enjoy the liberty of the prison, but he unkindly made him a cornuto.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind.
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It has been described unkindly by its critics as 'plinky plun-ky', 'fiddly twiddly' and 'an aural dot-to-dot'.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm sure she was frustrated and confused when I excused myself and went to talk to someone else, but it seemed unkind to let her go with her come-hither poses and gestures when they left me cold.
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Not that he was abusive, unkind or violent, he just expected more of her than she often felt she had to give.
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If there is a coherent source for the rather unkind public debate over Patel's heft it is the England management's fixation with nurturing a pack-like sense of intimidatory conditioning, the relentless corporate identity that so thrillingly steamrollered the Australians in the winter.
Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
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Engrossed by the pride of self-defence, and the indignancy of unmerited unkindness, the disturbed mind of Camilla had not yet formed one separate reflexion, nor even admitted a distinct idea of Edgar himself, disengaged from the accusation in which he stood involved.
Camilla
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If there is a coherent source for the rather unkind public debate over Patel's heft it is the England management's fixation with nurturing a pack-like sense of intimidatory conditioning, the relentless corporate identity that so thrillingly steamrollered the Australians in the winter.
Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
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Or say anything too unkind about her strange accent.
The Sun
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Elsewhere Dylan looks to celebrate freedom for the ‘mistreated mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute’, the ‘gentle and the kind’, and for all those who he sees to be on the outside of a harsh and unkind society.
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Don't spread gossip , rumor , innuendos , unkindness , malicious words or physical anger.
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You call me in to see, and I explain that it would be unkind to leave it there: it might crawl to the floor; we must take care that no one squashes it.
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Don't jeer at the person who came last in the race - it's very unkind.
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Cruelty to animals, deliberate unkindness, bullying smaller children: these were major crimes.
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He was unkind to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, while devoting a whole essay to the adroit but decidedly lesser The Hidden Fortress.
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Climatic conditions were unkind on the second evening, but that did not deter a sizeable crowd from braving the elements.
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Where members of staff are unkind or even cruel to children or even other staff swift disciplinary action needs to be taken.
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It's unkind to encourage people to write when there are too many unwanted books in the world already.
Times, Sunday Times
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unkindly ancts
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If we are ever together again, we must always remember that there are to be no unkind words, thoughts or gestures.
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Jess was said to look not unkindly on Ebie Farrish, the younger ploughman who had recently come to Craig Ronald from one of the farms at the "laigh" end of the parish.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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It's unkind to exult over a person one has beaten in a race.
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I have been married before and I know that some of my husbands may say unkind things about me.
Times, Sunday Times
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a thoughtless and unkind remark
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But Jack, a regular churchgoer, is unkind to his wife and a cynic.
De Niro, Norton Team Up in Cat and Mouse Drama
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Thou hast, I think, only encountered with thy wooden soldan: it were unjust — unfair — unkind — in me to abuse thy friendly offer.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Elsewhere Dylan looks to celebrate freedom for the ‘mistreated mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute’, the ‘gentle and the kind’, and for all those who he sees to be on the outside of a harsh and unkind society.
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In apparently impossible circumstances, where nothing but harshness and unkindness prevail, two human beings make contact, or at least one reaches out a hand to another.
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She was rather hurt by his unkind words.
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I must have done something very unkind to make him go away and leave me.
The Daisy Chain
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A stranger who is kind is a relative;an unkind relative is a stranger.
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There was unkind talk in the press about him dyeing his hair, possibly even wearing a toupee.
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Sensitive members of the Lords might wonder why people make unkind jokes about their age.
Times, Sunday Times
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He taught us to work hard, not to say unkind things about people, and be honest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unkindness is foreign to his nature.
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Little Jakob was first excited to see an unkindness of ravens.
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Columnist Hal Crowther, a contributor to these pages, wrote one of the few unkind obituaries of Nixon.
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John studied her face for a moment It was a sonsy and simple face, and her eyes were not unkindly.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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The contrast between the sweet screen versions of these women and their increasingly loopy and bitter personal lives adds, rather unkindly, to the fascination of the films.
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She tries not to read about herself and avoids all social media, but gets as upset as anyone else when people say unkind things.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unkindness is foreign to his nature.
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The unkind thought crossed your mind that it was something to do with the op that had seen the bolt removed.
The Sun
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I had been arrogant, snobbish, and unkind.
Positive Parent Power
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He was never actually unkind to them.
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You see in what a brotherly way I commence my letter: not with the frigid 'Sir' as if I were addressing one of a totally unkindred clay, one of the drossy children of earth, with whom I have no relationship and feel I could never have any familiarity.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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An unkindness of ravens circled him from above.
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That would be unkind and cruel.
The Sun
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Rounding up, Salih stressed that it would be foolish and unkind to turn down laurels bestowed by those who appreciated your work.
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She ran to him for a kiss, but he thrust her aside unkindly.
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And if people were unkind, then they weren't worth bothering with.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tom Jerrold, who now appeared on the poop, and whom I had fought shy of before, thinking he had behaved very unkindly to me in the morning, was one of the first to spring into the mizzen-shrouds and climb up the ratlines on the order being given to furl the sail, getting out on the manrope and to the weather earing at the end of the yard before either of the three hands who also went up.
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea
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the unkindest cut of all
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There was unkind sniggering among opposition bowsies when the question of putting the Luas on stilts at the Red Cow roundabout came up.
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He positioned himself for the endgame, unleashing that Batman-esque unkindness of ravens which smashed into the square.
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I'm being unkind, you say?
Times, Sunday Times
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‘They're good musicians,’ she says, not unkindly.
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My husband's family has been unkind to me in the past and I want them to know I will not put up with this hurtful behavior anymore.
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What you said was true. It was, nevertheless, a little unkind.
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She tries not to read about herself and avoids all social media, but gets as upset as anyone else when people say unkind things.
Times, Sunday Times
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It operates on a shoestring so it may be unkind to point to the very poor production values, but it and others have solved problems more creatively than is the case here.
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The ossified ‘bloom’ which ‘Nothing Poem’ offers as an icon of hope, defines the extraordinary spiritual demands exerted by Capildeo's book: ‘unkind and / unpretending, / at each point seeming limitless, grained and ablaze.’
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I believe that we will be judged on this record and not by unkind and unjustified personal remarks in the press.
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What you said was true but nevertheless unkind.
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When someone insults us or does something unkind to us, an internal formation is created in our consciousness.
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Reichardt's film could almost be called unkind as it slowly drags the viewer through the tedious realism of Wendy's worsening situation: her car breaks down, she gets busted shoplifting, and most anxiety-producing of all, Lucy goes missing.
Portland Mercury
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And if people were unkind, then they weren't worth bothering with.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had never been one to argue back or be unkind to anyone.
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Alfred Kinsey was raised by a prig of a father, unkind to his son, his wife and anyone else who got in the way of his bitter view of the world.
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All last summer he'd been unkind to her.
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In my unkinder moments, I suspect that it's all just an excuse for another cool font on the gawker banner chain.
What's Your Opinion of io9?
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The Indian thereupon asked him (not at all unkindly) whether he would like to be sent back to London, and left where they had found him, sleeping in an empty basket in a market - a hungry, ragged, and forsaken little boy.
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Many an hour have we two walked upon the deck dissecting our neighbours in a spirit that was too purely scientific to be called unkind; whenever a quaint or human trait slipped out in conversation, you might have seen Jones and me exchanging glances; and we could hardly go to bed in comfort till we had exchanged notes and discussed the day's experience.
Essays of Travel
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‘Meanness’ connotes not only the personal characteristics of spite, unkindness, or aggression, but also the social conditions of shabbiness and impoverishment.
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Once again we find that nature is unkind to simplistic formulations.
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'That's a bit unkind,' said Pat 'After all, Sadie's kind and generous and we all like to be friends with her because of those things, not because she's well-off And Pam was a nice little thing, though she's such a swotter j m not friends with her because I want to pick her brains but because there's something rather nice about her, in spite of her head always being inside a book' 'Well, stick up for Prudence if you like,' said Janet I think she's a humbug I can't stick her goody-goody ways Can you, Bobby? '
Summer Term At St Clare's
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`If he hasn't learned anything from a few unkind things I said to him yesterday, he's ineducable.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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I always use "unkind" -- it feels satisfyingly quaint.
Gawker Reckoning - Anil Dash
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After reading the comments on the Elizabeth Taylor story I have come to a conclusion: The people, or at least a good portion of them who back Obama are bitter, mean spirited, unkind, self centered people who need to chillllllllllllllllllllllllll out or they will explode from the anger!!!!
Steady voter turnout in Guam caucuses
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My lady, fair and lovely and unkind, your gentle coyness wounds me to the heart.
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I did not expect such unkind treatment at your hands.
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In the face of your inconsideration or unkindness, I may experience pain, indignation, chagrin, shame, annoyance, bashfulness and more besides.
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As one acquaintance remarked, Pater cultivated ‘a wise, grave passiveness, a gentle susceptibility, a kind of soft impressionability… I never remember a single unkind criticism or remark ’.
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What you said was true but nevertheless unkind.
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We live in a society that is unkind to old people.
Times, Sunday Times
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She tries not to read about herself and avoids all social media, but gets as upset as anyone else when people say unkind things.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pink, slightly knobbly skin of this species of seahorse has been rather unkindly, but accurately, compared to that of a plucked chicken.
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I have been married before and I know that some of my husbands may say unkind things about me.
Times, Sunday Times
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I entered a hazy phase where I was ‘holding court’ a little using the continuous, free-association form of discourse that my wife unkindly refers to as wittering.
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This was the excuse, made by Sundance, to do all it could to pressure the alternate ‘dances’ off of Main Street, enforcing unkind city laws to keep young, unselected filmmakers from hocking their wares to the gathered horde.
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A skull rests on the threshold as a reminder of the wages of sin, and, above, an unkindness of ravens presides.
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He hadn't been able to resist this still elegant, once-upon-a-time siren, whose beauty had been hidden by the unkindness of time and circumstance.
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Teddy thought this was a very unkind cut of the mate at poor Jones's boots, which were a dilapidated pair of bluchers that needed mending badly; still, he couldn't help smiling, which didn't seem to please Mr
Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle
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A stranger who is kind is a relative;an unkind relative is a stranger.
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And not all the second glances are unkind ones.
The Sun
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Even possible allies may view the hostile takeover unkindly.
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Unkindness, especially unkindness coupled with wit, is the greatest asset a courtier can possess.
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They have delicate mouthparts, so it's really unkind to use barbed hooks on the poor things.
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Rapid agricultural development has been unkind to the land.
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Hillary is d'une certain âge and not so well-favored, so it would be an unchivalrous and an unkind thing to say, but it would have scored a hit on an opponent's vulnerable point.
Never Yet Melted
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Dear Sir, Godfrey Horsecroft has generously permitted me to reply on his behalf to the unkind letter from a Mr Ruttmold which you published last week.
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The past few years have been unkind to young people buying property on the back of their earnings alone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed it has been said, rather unkindly, this scheme was framed especially to benefit Ireland's jockeys.
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He and Marx both understood that history was both kind and unkind, that it had its stops, starts, and occasional reverses.
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The mite was a waif too, alone in the world when his father was at sea, pathetically helpless, with no defence against blows and unkindness.
Sisters
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Abby, with a firm but not unkind grasp, took Shaker Jane and Mary by their little hands and said, "Morning's not the time for play; run over to Sister Martha and help her shell the peas; then there'll be your seams to oversew.
Homespun Tales
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He pulled her along not unkindly and she felt like a child toddling after its mother.
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Heck, you might even be as unkind to note that the work is a tad dated.
