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Definition of unkindness in English: unkindnessnoun ʌnˈkʌɪndnəsˌənˈkaɪn(d)nəs mass noun1Inconsiderate and harsh behaviour. she had had enough of her father's unkindness Example sentencesExamples - ‘Meanness’ connotes not only the personal characteristics of spite, unkindness, or aggression, but also the social conditions of shabbiness and impoverishment.
- Cruelty to animals, deliberate unkindness, bullying smaller children: these were major crimes.
- In the face of your inconsideration or unkindness, I may experience pain, indignation, chagrin, shame, annoyance, bashfulness and more besides.
- Certainly, that notion is incompatible with cruelty and unkindness to one another.
- In apparently impossible circumstances, where nothing but harshness and unkindness prevail, two human beings make contact, or at least one reaches out a hand to another.
Synonyms nastiness, unpleasantness, disagreeableness, cruelty, spite, malice, meanness, mean-spiritedness, viciousness, malevolence, uncharitableness harshness, callousness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness, compassionlessness, shabbiness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, cold-heartedness, mercilessness, brutality, savagery, savageness, inhumanity unfriendliness, inconsiderateness, insensitivity, ungenerousness, inhospitality, unkindliness, hostility informal beastliness, bitchiness, cattiness 2rare count noun A flock of ravens. an unkindness of ravens flew overhead Example sentencesExamples - A skull rests on the threshold as a reminder of the wages of sin, and, above, an unkindness of ravens presides.
- He positioned himself for the endgame, unleashing that Batman-esque unkindness of ravens which smashed into the square.
- The unkindness of ravens at the Tower of London is about to enjoy the kindness of taxpayers, in a move designed to improve the birds' accommodation.
- An unkindness of ravens circled him from above.
- Little Jakob was first excited to see an unkindness of ravens.
Definition of unkindness in US English: unkindnessnounˌənˈkaɪn(d)nəsˌənˈkīn(d)nəs Inconsiderate and harsh behavior. she had had enough of her father's unkindness Example sentencesExamples - Certainly, that notion is incompatible with cruelty and unkindness to one another.
- ‘Meanness’ connotes not only the personal characteristics of spite, unkindness, or aggression, but also the social conditions of shabbiness and impoverishment.
- In the face of your inconsideration or unkindness, I may experience pain, indignation, chagrin, shame, annoyance, bashfulness and more besides.
- In apparently impossible circumstances, where nothing but harshness and unkindness prevail, two human beings make contact, or at least one reaches out a hand to another.
- Cruelty to animals, deliberate unkindness, bullying smaller children: these were major crimes.
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