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as in unconcern
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkindness
Noun
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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
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Jake Haro pleaded guilty to willful cruelty to a child following a 2018 arrest, KABC reported.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
22 Aug. 2025
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Three people face animal cruelty charges in connection with a home in Old Saybrook where authorities reportedly found more than 100 dead animals.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
21 Aug. 2025
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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
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Where are the voices of outrage at this inhumanity?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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The savagery on display should be terrifying, but in a world where humans are so divorced from their actions, everything feels plastic, random, pointless.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
18 July 2025
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In the 2000 Loser, Jason Biggs plays Paul, a sweet but unhip Midwestern kid who gets a scholarship to NYU, only to be met with the sneering savagery of his rich-kid roommates.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
18 July 2025
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Only then are we forced to wrestle with the true brutality of war.—
Seema Jilani
August 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Aug. 2025
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In 1943, his UPA carried out a bloody campaign of massacres and terrorism against Polish civilians in the regions of Volhynia and Galicia, with a level of brutality that shocked even the Nazis.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Aug. 2025
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Rupturing the viewer’s passive gaze, Yellowjackets’ gut-wrenching barbarity is situated in these corporeal incisions and dissections.—
Sakhi Thirani,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Mar. 2023
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The vast majority of us see that as an act of cultural barbarity.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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President Donald Trump's careless personnel decisions, slapdash executive orders, whiplash-inducing policy pivots, and general malevolence have combined to make this among the most disruptive yet least successful first six months of any presidency in American history.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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In another actor’s hands, Laura’s erratic malevolence would feel obvious, something even the most incompetent social worker could see through.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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To learn more about how these plague pandemics changed over time, scientists at McMaster University in Canada and the Institut Pasteur in France turned to a Y. pestis virulence gene known as pla.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
31 May 2025
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Despite that virulence, some forms of plague did ultimately die out.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
29 May 2025
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“Unkindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindness. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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