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单词 unkindly kind
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unkindly kind
b. Modifying an adjective which has a positive meaning, with the sense ‘in a way that is also (unintentionally) harsh, inconsiderate, or unsympathetic’, ‘in such a way as to be harsh, inconsiderate, or unsympathetic’; esp. in unkindly kind. Obsolete.
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1604 W. Alexander Aurora sig. B4 A fearefull boldnesse takes my mind,..And is vnkindly kind.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 194 When thou weep'st, unkindly kinde, My lifes blood doth decay.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xii. v. 204 He, unkindely courteous, could not Denie to hugg his Spouses seeming friend.
1839 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 23 Dec. Why been so unkindly kind? Why receive my commission and reject theirs?
1891 Dundee Courier & Argus 23 Nov. All the four, in notes more or less unkindly polite, declined to come!
1928 M. M. Knight et al. Econ. Hist. Europe ix. 573 Nature seemed almost unkindly kind to them.
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