Wondering how to use Unkind in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as cutting or pitiless.
Unkind meaning
- Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
- Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
- Having no race or kindred; childless.
Synonyms of Unkind
Using Unkind
- The main meaning on this page is: Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful. | Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural. | Having no race or kindred; childless.
- Useful related words include: cutting, pitiless, kind, unmerciful.
- In the example corpus, unkind often appears in combinations such as: unkind to, be unkind, unkind things.
Context around Unkind
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 2 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unkind
- In this selection, "unkind" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, particularly, disrespectful, last, remarks, words and oversimplified stand out and add context to how "unkind" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abusive or unkind parents and been extremely unkind to us. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unkind" sits close to words such as acorns, acrobatics and acura, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unkind
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s all unkind, oversimplified, and inaccurate. (7 words)
Are people more disrespectful, unkind since the pandemic? (8 words)
If he is unkind to others, he will be unkind to you. (12 words)
In this game player one chooses left(L) or right(R), which is followed by player two being called upon to be kind (K) or unkind (U) to player one, However, player two only stands to gain from being unkind if player one goes left. (45 words)
The moral of this story can be summed up rather succinctly: Tricking someone into canoodling with a corpse is unkind and may cause future complications, up to and including an untimely demise at the hands of a costume-changing killer on a party train! (44 words)
If I were being unkind, I could say that this book owes a lot to the Upsidedown of Stranger Things, but Lemire and Walta are making the concept their own here. (31 words)
Are people more disrespectful, unkind since the pandemic? (8 words)
Or Kemi Badenoch’s Section-28-on-steroids guidance for schools on trans pupils, which leaves vulnerable children without a right to privacy from abusive or unkind parents? (28 words)
The moral of this story can be summed up rather succinctly: Tricking someone into canoodling with a corpse is unkind and may cause future complications, up to and including an untimely demise at the hands of a costume-changing killer on a party train! (44 words)
Example sentences (20)
If he is unkind to others, he will be unkind to you.
In this game player one chooses left(L) or right(R), which is followed by player two being called upon to be kind (K) or unkind (U) to player one, However, player two only stands to gain from being unkind if player one goes left.
A period in which I remember Rachel Silber Devlin’s father making a number of particularly unkind remarks about us in the campus and regional media.
Are people more disrespectful, unkind since the pandemic?
If I were being unkind, I could say that this book owes a lot to the Upsidedown of Stranger Things, but Lemire and Walta are making the concept their own here.
In today’s woke world, there will be some who will say it is judgemental or unkind to call someone a wolf.
It also wouldn't be his last unkind words for Clive Barker.
It’s all unkind, oversimplified, and inaccurate.
Not because the people around me are unkind or thoughtless, but because it’s not easy for them to see the importance of these transitions for me.
Or Kemi Badenoch’s Section-28-on-steroids guidance for schools on trans pupils, which leaves vulnerable children without a right to privacy from abusive or unkind parents?
Some of the passages about his second, third, and fourth wives—Marianne Wiggins, Elizabeth West, and Padma Lakshmi—are unkind, even vindictive.
The moral of this story can be summed up rather succinctly: Tricking someone into canoodling with a corpse is unkind and may cause future complications, up to and including an untimely demise at the hands of a costume-changing killer on a party train!
By analyzing Swift’s songs and music videos, students reflected on how they see themselves and how they can respond to others who may be unkind.
Folks are wearing their politics on their sleeves and broadcasting hateful, unkind rhetoric.
I ask both men whether they can understand how some women would find their presence intimidating, unkind and un-Christian - especially if they have had difficult experiences with men.
In an announcement on social media, organisers said: "We have explored every possible option to continue but sadly the weather has been extremely unkind to us.
Maria, who is married to Arshad Warsi, slammed the pre-wedding celebrations for being “unkind” to animals.
Perhaps the scoreboard was unkind to the Déise men, chalking up 13 wides, that indicates a big improvement is needed for their next assignment.
There’s nothing unkind about making it clear what you can and cannot do.
These things go a long way, and even recipients act unpleasantly afterwards, one should not let the world make them unkind.
Common combinations with unkind
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- unkind to 16×
- be unkind 10×
- unkind things 5×
- or unkind 4×
- being unkind 4×
- is unkind 3×
- unkind remarks 3×
- unkind words 3×
- are unkind 3×
- was unkind 3×