unkindliness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkindliness
Noun
  • He is also charged with third- and fourth-degree weapons charges related to possession of a golf club and knife, as well as animal cruelty related to the death of a family cat.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Ex-College Soccer Player Accused of Killing Fellow Athlete Brother, Cat Using Knife, Golf Club: Prosecutors He was also charged with animal cruelty for allegedly killing a cat who lived in the apartment.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The media didn't talk about the inhumanity of it all, and didn't invoke fear of American life coming to a halt.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Casting Fernanda Torres as a woman who refuses to be broken by devastating loss and inhumanity, this stirring true story, set against the backdrop of dictatorship, provides a direct link to Central Station, which starred Torres’ mother, Fernanda Montenegro.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • First of all, of course, the savagery of the crime.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 26 Nov. 2024
  • When the cop asks why the yakuza would do that, Suzie points to their general savagery.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Putin’s quasi-genocidal barbarities in Ukraine and Xi’s industrial-scale repression in Xinjiang threaten to restore a world of autocratic impunity and rampant atrocity.
    HAL BRANDS, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Unkindliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindliness. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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