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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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Etymology of 'Unkind'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unkind" Quotes from Famous Books

... can forgive you all my Lycidor, But leaving me, and leaving me for war, For that, so little argument I find, My reason makes the fault look more unkind. ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume II • Theophilus Cibber

... to salt, alas! Her fate was most unkind. No doubt she only wished to see How hung ...

— The New Pun Book • Thomas A. Brown and Thomas Joseph Carey

... my son, unkind enough to say, and say boldly, that the government did this strange act more to show its appreciation of insubordination than out of respect to his capacity to discharge successfully the duties of his high position. When, however, the ...

— Siege of Washington, D.C. • F. Colburn Adams

... and he had apparently obeyed; which seemed unkind and poor-spirited, and altogether unlike him. Ever until now he had been at hand to save her from all that was disagreeable. Even at Los Angeles he had jumped off the train to circumvent Mr. Millard. His ways had been like the ways of story-book heroes, ...

— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... have thought it unkind if you had not wished to see me," said Dorothea, her habit of speaking with perfect genuineness asserting itself through all her uncertainty and agitation. "Are you going ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

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