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adjective

Unkind adj. Having no race or kindred; childless. (Obs. & R.)

Unkind adj.

Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural. (Obs.) "Such unkind abominations."

Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful. "He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unkind" Quotes from Famous Books

... thereby, and said nothing a while; only covering her face with her hands and rocking herself to and fro, while Agatha stood looking at her. At last she said: "Hearken, Agatha, I must tell thee what lieth in mine heart, though thou hast been unkind to me and hast tried to hurt my soul. Now, thou art self-willed, and hot-blooded, and not unlovely, so that thou mayst have loved and been loved ere now. But thou art so wily and subtle that mayhappen thou wilt not understand ...

— The Well at the World's End • William Morris

... what I hev, an's ben used to hevin' things comfortable. I ain't strong enough to do much of anything myself, with a sick baby. I'm sure I don't know what's to be the end of it all. Es a gineral thing he don't mean to be unkind, but——" ...

— The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales • John Charles Dent

... doing one thing always reminded him that presently he would have to be doing another. Conscientious to a fault, he led a harassed and over-occupied life, which was not the less wearisome in its routine because no clear results ever presented themselves within his own range of vision. By an unkind stroke of fortune he had been called to the rule of a kingdom that had grown restive under the weight of too much tradition; and constitutionally he was unable to let it alone. So must he now remind himself in the hour of his privacy how all too fleeting were its moments, ...

— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman

... never jawed in all his life, He never was unkind,— And (tho' I say it that was his wife) Such men you ...

— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various

... Westminster and Sutherland, by three hundred members of the Gas Institute, and by innumerable delegations from cities, boroughs, etc. Describing this before the Royal Society of Arts, Sir W. H. Preece, F.R.S., remarked: "Many unkind things have been said of Mr. Edison and his promises; perhaps no one has been severer in this direction than myself. It is some gratification for me to announce my belief that he has at last solved the problem he set himself to solve, and to be able to describe to the Society the way in which ...

— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

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