Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being unkindly; unkindness; unfavorableness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Unkindness.

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  • noun archaic unkindness

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Examples

  • Lying back in his chair he thought of them thus, without unkindliness, even with a dash of humour.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Without unkindliness, one feels tempted to reply that this kind of language will begin to be convincing when Christian Scientists show their readiness and ability to sustain life on substances chemically certified to be without nutritive properties.

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

  • But the memory of his disobedience and unkindliness stayed with him, and more than fifty years after, as an old and worn man, he stood bare-headed in the wind and rain for an hour in the market-place, upon the spot where his father's stall had stood.

    English Literature for Boys and Girls

  • But he did not consciously think of this, because he was midcourse in the evoking of a mimic tempest which, having purged its victims of unkindliness and error, aimed (in the end) only to sink into an amiable calm.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • But he did not consciously think of this, because he was midcourse in the evoking of a mimic tempest which, having purged its victims of unkindliness and error, aimed (in the end) only to sink into an amiable calm.

    The Certain Hour 1909

  • I'm beginning to grasp the unkindliness of priests.

    The Research Magnificent 1906

  • Let nothing come between you and the stars, that they may look well upon your face, and haply repenting of some ancient unkindliness, draw you at this rebirth a new horoscope of blessing and fair fortune.

    Apologia Diffidentis 1905

  • The first enemy which the believer has to fight against is sensuality and the last is unkindliness.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • There was an occasional twinkle in the fierce old fellow's eye and sometimes a certain cackle in his clucking talk, which betokened not unkindliness toward a healthy youngster, and the two soon grew together, as often the young and old may do.

    The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man Stanley Waterloo 1879

  • Job was unkindly, and to justify themselves in their unkindliness they used false arguments (Job 13: 7); (namely, that calamities always prove peculiar guilt); therefore, though it was "for God" they spake thus falsely, God "reproves" them, as Job said He would (Job 13: 10). as ...

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

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