unkindness

Example Sentences

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
  • Conversely, Colum, devastated by his disability, has a pension for cruelty.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 31 July 2025
  • Gurley was charged with with reckless endangerment, aggravated cruelty to animals, arson, torture and injuring an animal.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • The cruelty and inhumanity of these actions have no match in American history.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
  • The detention center in the Everglades is a new low in injustice and inhumanity for this country.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • For Malice and Push, bringing Williams into the fold tied together their worlds of spirituality and savagery.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 21 July 2025
  • Margaret Thatcher says), diary excerpts, and tasteful, evocative sound design, a masterly sequence of the attack embodies the series’ unforgettable blend of elegance and savagery.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • For Sarah, eros serves as a powerful conduit for the divine, but the divine is not without brutality nor chaos.
    Terry Nguyen July 23, Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
  • President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and their supporters are celebrating the brutality of the 3,000-bed detention facility that was hastily built in the Florida Everglades, one of the harshest natural environments in the United States.
    Time, Time, 17 July 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
  • 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
  • In the room with us in Valencia, the dolls eyes’ are hypnotic, carrying a trace of malevolence.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 14 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 5 Aug. 2025.

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