How to Use unkindly in a Sentence

unkindly

adverb

• But when the hearts unkindly broke 5-1, South was sunk.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 25 June 2019
• This is not the first time Hailey Bieber shut down the notion that her husband of two years treats her unkindly.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2021
• Laughter can be used unkindly, too, to wound or to exclude someone from a group.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• There amid the waxworks, Herman plays the court jester, as a few intimates unkindly note.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• At the readings, held in bars, there were internecine squabbles and dramas, and some of the poets treated Wong unkindly.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Don’t waste your practice (or time, or life) on someone unkind, though — and please see how unkindly your partner treats you.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2021
• Approval ratings might drop as more people will look unkindly at some X-Men.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 24 Aug. 2022
• The ops people get upset that the engineers are treating them unkindly and things spiral downward from there.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• Think about it like this, the man—who by now has identified himself as Herman Weisberg, private detective—says, not unkindly: There’s a row of nice houses.
  — Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 10 Jan. 2018
• History will likely not only look unkindly at Trump, but those staring steadfastly at the floor, too.
  — Isobel Thompson, vanityfair.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• Music history tends to look unkindly on such messy, inconsistent figures, preferring those who put the brand of genius on works large and small.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• India’s Supreme Court ought to look unkindly on such legal sleight of hand, which would allow any other state to be similarly conjured out of existence.
  — The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
• But all the attention, all the post-match pub talk, all the morning papers would focus cruelly and unkindly on one man in particular: The isolated young German who was sitting alone in his own penalty area, Loris Karius.
  — SI.com, 29 May 2018
• China imports significant amounts of oil from Iran, and might look unkindly on efforts to destabilize its government.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2021
• As a film historian, he was known for championing movies, directors and screenwriters who had been treated unkindly by others.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• Your former friend has behaved unkindly by dropping you so suddenly and refusing an explanation.
  — Ask Amy, al, 19 May 2019
• But when the hearts unkindly broke 5-1, South was sunk.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 25 June 2019
• This is not the first time Hailey Bieber shut down the notion that her husband of two years treats her unkindly.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2021
• Laughter can be used unkindly, too, to wound or to exclude someone from a group.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• There amid the waxworks, Herman plays the court jester, as a few intimates unkindly note.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• At the readings, held in bars, there were internecine squabbles and dramas, and some of the poets treated Wong unkindly.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Don’t waste your practice (or time, or life) on someone unkind, though — and please see how unkindly your partner treats you.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2021
• Approval ratings might drop as more people will look unkindly at some X-Men.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 24 Aug. 2022
• The ops people get upset that the engineers are treating them unkindly and things spiral downward from there.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• Think about it like this, the man—who by now has identified himself as Herman Weisberg, private detective—says, not unkindly: There’s a row of nice houses.
  — Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 10 Jan. 2018
• History will likely not only look unkindly at Trump, but those staring steadfastly at the floor, too.
  — Isobel Thompson, vanityfair.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• Music history tends to look unkindly on such messy, inconsistent figures, preferring those who put the brand of genius on works large and small.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• India’s Supreme Court ought to look unkindly on such legal sleight of hand, which would allow any other state to be similarly conjured out of existence.
  — The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
• But all the attention, all the post-match pub talk, all the morning papers would focus cruelly and unkindly on one man in particular: The isolated young German who was sitting alone in his own penalty area, Loris Karius.
  — SI.com, 29 May 2018
• China imports significant amounts of oil from Iran, and might look unkindly on efforts to destabilize its government.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024