unkindly

[ UK /ʌnkˈa‍ɪndli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking in sympathy and kindness
    unkindly ancts
ADVERB
  1. in an unkind manner or with unkindness
    The teacher treats the children unkindly
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How To Use unkindly In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • She ran to him for a kiss, but he thrust her aside unkindly.
  • 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
  • ‘They're good musicians,’ she says, not unkindly.
  • 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.
  • The pink, slightly knobbly skin of this species of seahorse has been rather unkindly, but accurately, compared to that of a plucked chicken.
  • 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.
  • Even possible allies may view the hostile takeover unkindly.
  • Indeed it has been said, rather unkindly, this scheme was framed especially to benefit Ireland's jockeys.
  • He pulled her along not unkindly and she felt like a child toddling after its mother.
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