unkindness

noun

Definition of unkindnessnext
1
as in unconcern

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2
as in cruelty

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkindness
  1. unconcern
  2. cruelty
  3. inhumanity
  4. savagery
  5. brutality
  6. barbarity
  7. malevolence
  8. virulence
Noun
  • Most of Ukraine’s ravaged cultural sites are like the shelled Reims Cathedral: perhaps not directly targeted, but destroyed with ruthless unconcern.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Marked by the artist’s apparent unconcern with conventional modeling and draftsmanship and by the velvety smoothness of his brushwork, the paintings exude an aura of quietude and utter perfection unrivaled in the work of his peers.
    Mary Tompkins Lewis, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2022
Definition of unconcern
Noun
  • By separating the cruelty from the constructive, a company can turn criticism into a catalyst for meaningful growth.
    Molly McPherson, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Gibbons was booked into jail on two counts of animal cruelty and one count of killing livestock, NCSO said.
    Olivia Rose, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.
    Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Throughout his diary, excerpts of which we are honored to share today with our readers, Navalny writes with a fierce moral clarity about the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and about the power of its opposite force—the humanity of his fellow-countrymen.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of inhumanity
Noun
  • Hamas’s savagery was backed by an aggressive Iran that is supported by the authoritarian axis; as such, October 7 was a direct assault on the free world.
    Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The point of all that money, like of the attack on Porter, has been to draw attention to Silicon Valley’s financial might—and to prove that its leaders are capable of political savagery in order to protect their interests.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of savagery
Noun
  • Syrians are still digesting the systemic brutality of the regime, now that prisons and torture chambers – chief among them Sednaya – have been opened.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The killing of the CEO captivated the nation, both for the brutality of the crime and for the anger and frustration many people expressed about the health care insurance system.
    Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of brutality
Noun
  • The dehumanizing treatment prisoners received on Devil’s Island was, in effect, a continuation of the barbarity long inflicted on French Guiana’s enslaved population.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Guillén’s 2017 caricature shows Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro clubbing a woman representing democracy to a bloody pulp, the way his security forces were savaging pro-democracy demonstrators that year — barbarity a U.N. report designated as crimes against humanity.
    Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
Definition of barbarity
Noun
  • Eastwood’s story runs on the bedrock of the unimpeachable, confident that there is a definite truth to be discovered about an event such as the killing of Kendall and that only malevolence or incompetence could prevent its discovery.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
  • What Uzumaki never loses is the core idea that the human body is a malleable, spongy thing, available to absorb both kindness, compassion, and good energy and malevolence, evil, and brutality.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of malevolence
Noun
  • An ePPP is a pathogen that has been modified to enhance its transmissibility and virulence.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Still others are investigating viruses that attack Bd and eventually might be used to reduce its virulence.
    Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of virulence
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