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How to use the word unkind in a Sentence?

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He has had very unkind things to say about me.

Marsha Blackburn

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think that it comes from growing up in a household that was destabilized and felt unsafe, watching adults being unkind to each other, and witnessing certain things about human behavior that made me think: I dont want to do that. I dont want to be that. I dont want to experience this feeling Im having in my body right now. I dont want anyone else that I ever come in contact with ever to feel that.

Jennifer Aniston

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I’m a kind person, I’m kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you’ll remember me for.

Al Capone

added by Normando
5 years ago

It wouldve been worse if he had said no because it wouldve seemed unkind, and this was at least one way he could show his concern along with his visit, in this setting, where tragedy has occurred and where he comes for this brief visit, we need to have some grace about that for these folks.

Bill Leonard

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Dad taught me to always be appreciative of what you have, in fact, he would never say no to anyone who asked for an autograph. Even if it was at the most inconvenient moment, he ’d be so gracious and say yes. I remember he once said, ‘ These are the people who put me here ’ and that’s why he did it. He also taught me that it’s so easy to be kind and so hard to be unkind, because he always had so much love and respect for other people. He was such a good man.

Deborah Moore

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If he liked you, you were treated well, but if he didn’t, he could be very unkind.

Michelle Mindlin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Frightening impressionable undergraduates into believing that work alone is all-important is irresponsible, unkind and wrong-headed.

Anthony Seldon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

[The show is] talking about sex the way I want to talk about it… so we can openly talk about what is going on behind the scenes and closed doors so people are having satisfying sexual relationships. [We’re] not talking about it in a way that is crude and unkind.

Jill Dictrow

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The third one, while it wasn't as glorious and easy as the first one, it was the most moving and life changing because of the fact that I used the hike to understand why over the years I was so unkind to myself with weight, it was about self acceptance; it was about knowing what I've been through and my past.

Kara Richardson Whitely

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is simply heartbreaking, clearly the results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.

Nick Clegg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A stranger who is kind is a kinsman; an unkind kinsman is a stranger.

The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Kahlil Gibron

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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