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Recent Examples of unkindly
Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
David Brace says he’s seen more travelers treat each other unkindly in recent months, including confrontations over masks and personal space.
—Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
So, any threats to Levesque’s new creative control would also likely be looked upon unkindly by talent.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2023
Animated violence includes characters bullying and speaking unkindly to one another.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
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Mischa was one of the young women stalked by photographers and treated unkindly by online bloggers.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
David Brace says he’s seen more travelers treat each other unkindly in recent months, including confrontations over masks and personal space.
—Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
So, any threats to Levesque’s new creative control would also likely be looked upon unkindly by talent.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2023
Animated violence includes characters bullying and speaking unkindly to one another.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkindly
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Playing the 81-year-old president as aghast, confused, and inarticulate could easily amount to an unkind impersonation, but in Carvey’s masterful hands, there is zero heightening — only dead-on accuracy.Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
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Interacting with family that hurt him in the past is likely triggering, but some of his behavior goes beyond self-protective and has become unkind.R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
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Critics have affixed to his output any number of adjectives meant to communicate its basic darkness: acerbic, malicious, cruel, contemptuous.Brandon Sanchez, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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The rocket lifted away slowly, as though in contemptuous defiance of physics.David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
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Yet feeling out of place has, ironically, brought Escola even closer to their Mary Todd Lincoln, whose fear that a scornful world might keep her offstage gives the show an unexpected pathos.Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
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The president has outlined a deeply misguided foreign policy vision that is distrustful of U.S. allies, scornful of international institutions, and indifferent, if not downright hostile, to the liberal international order that the United States has sustained for nearly eight decades.Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
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Prior to appearing on Cunningham's show on Monday, Huggins made more disparaging remarks about Xavier.Emily DeLetter, The Enquirer, 10 May 2023
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Will Smith was given the Golden Raspberry Awards’ lone non-disparaging prize, with Smith earning the Redeemer Award after landing an actual Oscar nod for his role in King RIchard; Nicolas Cage and Jamie Dornan were also considered for the quasi-honor.Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2022
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The plaques accompanying the statues also included some of the derogatory comments made in Trump's Access Hollywood tape.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Biden himself took to social media to reiterate his stance, asserting that the derogatory comments made about Puerto Rico at Trump’s rally do not represent the nation’s values.Nik Popli, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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Sure, this is all meaningful information to most Star Wars fans, who know the Sith as the primary anti-Jedi order, disdainful of the Jedi rules about how and why to use the Force.Noel Murray, Vulture, 26 June 2024
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Greer’s disdainful, stuck-up lines ooze out of Kidman’s mouth.Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
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Oh, and Olivia Newton John, she of the snide reference above… that’s her on backing vocals.Henry Everingham, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2024
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Another is with their adoptive family, which is made up of an uptight aunt, a materialistic uncle, and seven snide cousins.Mia Taylor, Parents, 4 Oct. 2024
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His loutish gimmick of the week is an obnoxious get-ready-with-me tutorial that the rest of his Chamber mates, unfortunately, can’t scroll past.Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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But not the party atmosphere of today, with some people drinking too much and some obnoxious people ruining it for the majority.Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Unkindly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindly. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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