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as in unconcern
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as in cruelty
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkindness
Noun
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Most of Ukraine’s ravaged cultural sites are like the shelled Reims Cathedral: perhaps not directly targeted, but destroyed with ruthless unconcern.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
27 Dec. 2022 -
Marked by the artist’s apparent unconcern with conventional modeling and draftsmanship and by the velvety smoothness of his brushwork, the paintings exude an aura of quietude and utter perfection unrivaled in the work of his peers.—
Mary Tompkins Lewis,
WSJ,
26 Nov. 2022
Noun
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Saline County sheriff’s deputies, responding to an animal cruelty report entered the Fullen’s field after observing about 50 cattle, many with calves, with minimal grass to graze on, according to an affidavit.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025
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Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony under New York State law and carries a sentence of up to two years if convicted.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This distinction is what keeps Rawls’s view from lapsing into inhumanity.—
Becca Rothfeld,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Mar. 2024
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Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.—
Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Aug. 2020
Noun
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First of all, of course, the savagery of the crime.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
26 Nov. 2024
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When the cop asks why the yakuza would do that, Suzie points to their general savagery.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2024
Noun
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Those factories were disproportionately African American, exacerbating the ever-present burden of segregation and police brutality.—
Matthew Scogin,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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The series generally holds nothing back in terms of portraying the kind of visceral brutality that resulted from the violent campaign of manifest destiny and America’s founding.—
Abbey White,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Angle was just too good, too fast, and too pre-equipped to allow Lesnar to gain a real advantage, meaning that Lesnar had to rely on his powerhouse barbarity to come out on top.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2024
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The dehumanizing treatment prisoners received on Devil’s Island was, in effect, a continuation of the barbarity long inflicted on French Guiana’s enslaved population.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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David Lynch’s cinematic masterpiece pulls back the curtain on the sadism and malevolence hiding behind the picket fences of middle America.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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The London Cat, a great skinless feline who likes to turn people inside-out and embodies all the mischief and malevolence of cats).—
Christian Holub,
EW.com,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Everything about the movement surprised political observers: its virulence, its magnitude, its provincial origins, its apparent lack of structure and leadership, and its adamant refusal to be co-opted by existing political parties and unions.—
Arthur Goldhammer,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2018
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An ePPP is a pathogen that has been modified to enhance its transmissibility and virulence.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Unkindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkindness. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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