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Meanings of unkindly in English

Lacking in sympathy and kindness.

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In an unkind manner or with unkindness.

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Examples for "unsympathetic"
Examples for "unsympathetic"
1
Media risked alienating and angering the unsympathetic public by covering the case.
Radio NZ
2
The colonel in command was inclined to be suspicious and sternly unsympathetic.
Memories / A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During ...
3
My parents were unaccountably unsympathetic; they absolutely refused to provide the shilling.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
4
He confided as much in an aggrieved whisper to the unsympathetic Ginger.
No Man's Land
5
The students were enthusiastic, but the authorities of the university sternly unsympathetic.
Hero Tales of the Far North
Usage of unkindly in English
1
If it doesn't, history is likely to judge him very unkindly indeed.
The Guardian
2
The judge turned to the witness and spoke to him, not unkindly:-
Burnham Breaker
3
Not unkindly, Mr. Nell told him, There's two parts to the system.
IT
4
One of the hikers looked at him in a not unkindly way.
A walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian tr...
5
One is not anxious to have one's personal dates handled so unkindly.
Sherlock Holmes: The complete canon
6
He caught her arm, and placed her not unkindly upon the chair.
The Mississippi Bubble / How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and S...
7
It made my heart sorry that you should be so unkindly used.
New Arabian Nights
8
No, dealing unkindly with the lasses was an ill thing to do.
The Judge
9
I was out, or it should not have been done so unkindly.
Beechcroft at Rockstone
10
I do not think that these men mean to treat us unkindly.
Princess Zara
11
One day he bluntly asked her why she treated him so unkindly.
Her Weight in Gold
12
Groh took Ames by the arm and helped him-notunkindly-tohis feet.
Under the dome: a novel
13
Yet even then his countenance did not impress her as being unkindly.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
14
At present he but saw that his kinsfolks received him not unkindly.
The Virginians
15
He turned then to Kornel with a briskness that was not unkindly.
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases: Seventeen Short Stories
16
Go home and sleep it off, said Miss Sally Ruth, not unkindly.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common