Example sentences for: unkind

How can you use “unkind” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In my own family Spoonerisms flourished luxuriantly for many years, and we hardly spoke of the weather, for instance, without invoking their oblique charm: It's rotting with Spain, or perhaps more frequently (it was in the English Midlands, which as Hilaire Belloc said are sodden and unkind): It's roaring with pain.

  • She might enjoy the moral frisson . To be less unkind, she might well be truly morally enriched by the experience.

  • Bernard Malamud, in The Ghost Writer , involves a subtler form of backstabbing: the unkind portrait masquerading as homage.

  • Schickel is alternately sycophantic (toward Eastwood) and pugilistic (toward any critic who has ever had unkind words for the actor--particularly Pauline Kael, who did seem to have a mission to make the tall man's Magnum shrivel).

  • The humiliation caused by his unkind smile persisted for 24 hours.


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