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Example sentences for "unkindness"

Lexicographically close words:
unkept; unkind; unkinde; unkindest; unkindly; unkingly; unknightly; unknit; unknowable; unknowen
  1. I must be careful not to wound the sensitiveness of one naturally much more susceptible to unkindness than myself.

  2. His tender and devoted love, the miserable return I had made, the unkindness of our parting, my shameful injustice and deceit, the cruelty of his sufferings, all rushed over me and shook me with a tempest of tears and sobs.

  3. The joy he felt when he found himself so near to the beloved object of his journey, made him thank Sandford in his heart, for the unkindness which had sent him thither.

  4. The fault is easily set right, and it seems even an unkindness not to lend him this redress, offered him here as an act of comradeship.

  5. Forgetting all the unkindness they had received at his hands, Jack and Nina lifted him from the floor and placed him on his bed.

  6. I think he is sorry for it and is trying to do all he can now to make up for his unkindness and make us forget it.

  7. She said, "I think it much unkindness in the king to put such about me as I never loved.

  8. I said that your Highness no less did marvel that his Holiness having found so much benevolence and kindness at your hands in all times past, would for acquittal show such unkindness as of late he did.

  9. Mrs. Wollstonecraft died, happy to be released from a world which had given her nothing but unkindness and sorrow.

  10. Imlay's unkindness and indecision had, by the time she reached Holland, so increased her melancholy that the good effect of the bracing northern air was partially destroyed.

  11. Mrs. Mason tells it to Mary and Caroline, the two little girls, to explain to them how much wretchedness can be produced by unkindness to men and beasts.

  12. But still sadder for Mary was the fact that Fanny, in addition to domestic grievances, was tortured by the unkindness of an uncertain lover.

  13. Sensitive to a fault, she could not forgive his blows and unkindness so quickly as to be able to enjoy his smiles and favors.

  14. You have observed no unkindness towards her on his part, Rosalind?

  15. I, like a fool, summoned my Husband and Lord, and libelled unkindness against Him; but now I pass from that foolish pursuit; I give over the plea.

  16. I pass now from my unjust summons of unkindness libelled against Christ my Lord.

  17. It is not unkindness that keepeth Christ and us so long asunder.

  18. He called the school to order, and then told Charles what he had thought of doing; reminded him of his disobedience, of his unkindness to his school-mates, and of his general neglect of his studies.

  19. The next thing I notice in the school history of this boy is the unkindness which he showed his school-fellows.

  20. Doth my father think that his unkindness Can part you and poor Laurentia?

  21. I would fain send death after him, but I dare not-- He knows I dare not; that would give just cause Of her unkindness everlasting to me.

  22. If I have written any thing under the influence of prejudice, passion, or unkindness to any human being, I ask forgiveness of God and man.

  23. There may be unkindness and misunderstanding in India, as in England; but nowhere could there be warmer love, more tender affection.

  24. Forgive me for accusing you of cruelty and unkindness in my thoughts.

  25. I little knew this circumstance when--but I trust unkindness will be forgotten between us.

  26. Unkindness was unfairness and unfairness was above all qualities the quality he could not tolerate.

  27. The old habit, the old trick of seeing the other side, acted never so strongly upon him as when unkindness appeared to lie in his own attitude.

  28. I should have been regretful of the unkindness between those two very nice Americans but for a beautiful good to France that was brought about by the desire of each to please me more than the other.

  29. Nonsense, Nurse," he said to Nannette bruskly but not with unkindness when I had translated to him Nannette's weeping protests.

  30. Oh, let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence!

  31. The proximate cause of his death was dropsy; and there is not the smallest sign of its having been accelerated or embittered by unkindness or neglect.

  32. Resentment for her imputed unkindness to Johnson might have been expected to last longest at his birthplace.

  33. Nothing unkind was intended, but unkindness is often done without that.

  34. Twas her unkindness had sent him to his doom.

  35. Will your fellow-creatures be any the better for your unkindness to Kilrush?

  36. He promised to make inquiries, and thus delayed matters, without the unkindness of a refusal.

  37. She had never once uttered a syllable of unkindness to Harry Esmond; and her cruel words smote the poor boy, so that he stood for some moments bewildered with grief and rage at the injustice of such a stab from such a hand.

  38. Madame could not forget so easily; in fact, her sense of unkindness was intensified by the unlooked-for entrance of its cause.

  39. Her father had carefully attended to all things necessary for her safety and comfort, and her stepmother had tried to atone by profuse and handsome gifts for the apparent unkindness which had hastened her departure.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unkindness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    disagreeableness; disservice; inferiority; malevolence; unpleasantness; wickedness