Unkind
[ʌn'kaɪnd] or [,ʌn'kaɪnd]
Definition
(adj.) lacking kindness; 'a thoughtless and unkind remark'; 'the unkindest cut of all' .
Inputed by Leslie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having no race or kindred; childless.
(a.) Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.
(a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.
Checked by Hayes
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unfriendly, ungracious, unsympathizing, ungenial, unamiable, disobliging, harsh, cruel.
Typist: Marietta
Definition
adj. contrary to kind or nature: wanting in kindness: cruel.—n. Unkīnd′liness want of kindliness.—adj. Unkīnd′ly contrary to kind or nature: malignant: not kind.—adv. (Milt.) in a manner contrary to kind or nature: in an unkindly manner: cruelly.—n. Unkīnd′ness want of kindness or affection: cruelty.—adj. Unkin′dred (obs.) not related.—adv. Unkin′dredly.
Checker: Tom
Examples
- Don't say that, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, almost with severity, 'because that is very unkind to Mrs. Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Indeed, you are doing a very unkind thing in spreading the report, and you will find that you have though you will not believe me now. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It is unkind--it is throwing back my love for you as if it were a trifle, to speak in that way in the face of the fact. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My brother is so unkind, so unreasonable! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I thought you had been unkind and forgotten your mother and sister. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Gonnows I were not a unkind husband to her. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I wish you would be less unkind, James! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How dreadfully unkind in a brother nothing has ever turned my love away from! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I would tell you if he were unkind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It would be very unkind of you to suppose that I ever attributed any meanness to you, she began. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typed by Agatha