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
  • But her private letters to her sister Cassandra show a sharper and more astringent person, someone whose cruelty and bitterness were redeemed only by her jokes.
    Lucy Worsley September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Justice came for Petal when her previous owner was arrested and charged with cruelty to animals on September 12, a press release from CGHS stated.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 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
  • Human error, carelessness and everyday habits are now the leading causes of cyber incidents, identified by CISOs worldwide.
    Max Silber, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Survivors describe ethnic cleansing of almost unimaginable savagery.
    Nicholas Kristof, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • More Ethan Miller/Getty Images Their history is defined by brutality.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For a country still reckoning with the brutality of its dark past, the trial of several high ranking military officers in a civilian court is a singular achievement.
    Adriana Carranca, Time, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Unkindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindness. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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