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Recent Examples of unkindly
Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
This move wouldn't be looked at unkindly by new Brazil national team manager Dorival Jr., who is currently in Europe to keep tabs on players such as Vinicius Jr., Rodrygo, Vitor Roque and Raphinha.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Mischa was one of the young women stalked by photographers and treated unkindly by online bloggers.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
David Brace says he’s seen more travelers treat each other unkindly in recent months, including confrontations over masks and personal space.
—Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
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Paris quickly put a stop to strangers speaking unkindly about her son.
—Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
This move wouldn't be looked at unkindly by new Brazil national team manager Dorival Jr., who is currently in Europe to keep tabs on players such as Vinicius Jr., Rodrygo, Vitor Roque and Raphinha.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Mischa was one of the young women stalked by photographers and treated unkindly by online bloggers.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
David Brace says he’s seen more travelers treat each other unkindly in recent months, including confrontations over masks and personal space.
—Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkindly
Adjective
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To them, he will be remembered as a cold, heartless businessman and a shamefully unkind man of the cloth who focused way too much on socializing, traveling and furthering his own agenda.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
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Currently, Republicans hold narrow margins in both chambers -- but midterm cycles are historically unkind to the sitting president's party.—
Emily Chang,
ABC News,
2 Feb. 2026
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Deflatingly, this last-four tie was effectively over as a contest after less than seven minutes of the second leg, when Dan Burn’s slide tackle cruelly bounced off Omar Marmoush and looped over a helpless Aaron Ramsdale, before two further goals followed inside the opening 32 minutes.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Ray can be cruelly withholding.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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We are confronted by an administration that is contemptuous of the Bill of Rights and engaged in unlawful acts of violence against us.—
Chris Mattei,
Hartford Courant,
6 Feb. 2026
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Thompson, meanwhile, savors every contemptuous glare and hateful retort Anna regularly supplies.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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And with a scornful undercurrent at the fact that Charli apparently stole Johannes out from under her.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Less tangibly, the disgust in Europe for Trump’s way of doing business—his swaggering, swindling, scornful style—can’t be erased.—
Jonathan Lemire,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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Conservative pundit Meghan McCain blasted commentator Tucker Carlson after a guest on his podcast and online show this week made a disparaging remark about her weight.—
Dominick Mastrangelo,
The Hill,
5 Dec. 2025
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Emily’s father didn’t say it in a disparaging way—more like That was just Ryan.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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The first hour, set at a resort that’s like a singles cruise through the Twilight Zone (or Bachelor in Paradise beamed in from a brutal alternate universe), contains some of the most pitilessly funny scenes of the filmmaker’s career.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Court documents show Shadbar, who is white, yelled several derogatory racist and sexist slurs at his neighbors and had regularly harassed the family, including firing blank rounds toward Robertson’s home and throwing an M-80 type of firework over the fence into her yard.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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Oklahoma State’s win over BYU was overshadowed by allegations of derogatory fan chants.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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As a small rural settlement is swiftly and ruthlessly stripped bare by the twin plagues of a diphtheria epidemic and spreading wildfires, the film eventually descends into a near-literal hellscape, though even when pandemonium takes over on screen, Van Dusen’s formal control never wavers.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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This is a book that treats its characters and incidents seriously and—at its best—ruthlessly.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Unkindly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindly. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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