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  • adjective superlative form of unkind: most unkind.

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Examples

  • And the unkindest cut of all was that Haley Barbour -- Haley Barbour!

    The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Beverly may have kept her head, but this loss felt like the unkindest cut yet — if only she'd plated her Rice Krispies in the conveyor-belt quickfire challenge, she'd have had immunity.

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2012

  • In the unkindest of cuts, several pundits accused him of conspiring with Sean Hannity.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • And the unkindest cut of all was that Haley Barbour -- Haley Barbour!

    The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • In the unkindest of cuts, several pundits accused him of conspiring with Sean Hannity.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • "I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of 15, the mistress of the Earl of Craven," her book begins, proceeding to the unkindest cut: He "never once made me laugh nor said nor did anything to please me."

    A Sweet Spot in Literary History Cynthia Crossen 2011

  • The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is tasked with keeping the party in the House majority after Nov. 2, began to make those unkindest of cuts last week, walking away, financially and figuratively, from more than half a dozen Democratic candidates.

    Who had the worst week in Washington? Democratic candidates who were cut off. Chris Cillizza 2010

  • The unkindest cut of all comes from Zbigniew Brzezinski—Jimmy Carter's national security adviser and one of the first to hop aboard the Obama bandwagon—who on MSNBC last month brought up the word most associated with Mr. Carter, though he never actually said it: "malaise."

    They Once Loved Jimmy, Too William McGurn 2011

  • Earlier today, in what might have been the unkindest cut of all to poor Mitt Romney, the Fox News Channel ran a graphic that didn't quite capture the ...

    Fox News' Graphic Department Having A Very Bad Week The Huffington Post News Team 2011

  • «Politico offers the unkindest cut of all towards POTUS.

    Joe Wilson should sponsor House version of Johanns Amendment. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

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