Unkindness

Examples

• She had declined to answer the questions which Miss Halcombe naturally put, but had not, in other respects, treated her with unkindness or neglect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Would you mind telling Rosanna that I meant no unkindness? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She sometimes begged Justine to forgive her unkindness, but much oftener accused her of having caused the deaths of her brothers and sister. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• To treat her with unkindness, to speak of her slightingly is no atonement to Mariannenor can I suppose it a relief to your own conscience. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• And they will now see their cousin treated as she ought to be, and I wish they may be heartily ashamed of their own abominable neglect and unkindness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Mamma detests him; she says he killed aunt Ginevra with unkindness: he looks like a bear. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The unkindness of your own relations has made you astonished to find friendship any where. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

Typist: Preston