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Antonyms for unkind


Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhn-kahynd
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈkaɪnd



Definition of unkind

Origin :
  • early 13c. (implied in unkindly), "strange, foreign, unnatural," from un- (1) "not" + kind (adj.). Meaning "lacking in kindness" is recorded from mid-14c. Related: Unkindly; unkindness.
  • adj not nice
Example sentences :
  • If you think that, ma'am, it's very cruel and unkind of you to send me away.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • She did not wish to be unkind, but her one absorbing idea at this moment was of solitude.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • It would be so unkind if she did not answer immediately: she must answer.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He thinks, though he has all honour for my mother, that she is unkind to us both.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • I take it unkind of you that you have not so much as dipped ensign to me on leaving.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "I am sure nobody wishes to be unkind to you," she said, with embarrassment.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • It will be unkind to poor Jack to hurry away from his grave so indecently.
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • All who wished to be unkind to her could find in it an occasion for hard sayings.
  • Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • That cold, intellectual nature of hers would be just, if unkind.
  • Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
  • It was an unkind thing to have said, and the lad rightly turned upon me.
  • Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton

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