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as in unconcern
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as in cruelty
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Recent Examples of unkindness
Can the bewitching kindness be disassociated from the defining unkindness at the heart of Southern history, visible in the portraits of Confederates in the lobby of the Lafayette Hotel?
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Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
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
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The book’s occasional oases of self-examination are surrounded by dusty expanses of omission and unconcern.—
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Whatever the reason, Maxwell’s strength and the shark’s apparent unconcern put one of Maxwell’s friends in danger.—
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The American people must reject this cruelty and extremism.—
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Does their lack of kindness grant you permission to respond with equal insensitivity or even cruelty?—
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Essentially, they’re used to meeting an expectation where rudeness and thoughtlessness aren’t tolerated—because their older sister made sure of that.—
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Maybe the symptoms of his cognitive decline are inextricable from what seemed to you to be his general self-absorption and thoughtlessness.—
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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But the turnovers that are born of carelessness?—
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Straight-up errors, like the errant pass from James Tarkowski that led to Brentford’s opener, or Tim Iroegbunam’s carelessness before their third, have not been common flaws.—
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Its savagery was all the more disturbing knowing what a compassionate, effective man Rob Reiner was in life and work.—
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Then came the October 7, 2023, savagery by Hamas that took the lives of more than 1,200 innocent Jews—40 years after the attack on America’s troops in Beirut.—
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For some residents, Good’s killing reopened deep wounds in a city still reckoning with the police murder of George Floyd, which occurred just blocks away in May 2020 and sparked nationwide protests against police brutality.—
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Captured on video, the incident would bring national tensions over police brutality to a head, igniting months of demonstrations around the country.—
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“Unkindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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