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# unkindness

«unkindness» in Mova's school dictionary: **being unkind, mean or cruel to others** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (unkindness — uncountable; an unkindness, unkindnesses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unkindness is being unkind, mean or cruel to others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unkindness/#m1)

2) An unkindness is one unkind act or word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unkindness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons on friendship and ethics, unkindness hurts feelings and is the opposite of kindness. In church life Christians may confess unkindness and ask forgiveness. Phrases: an act of unkindness, unkindness to animals.

### examples

- Unkindness can make someone very sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unkindness/#x1)
- She said sorry for her unkindness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unkindness/#x2)
- There is no place for unkindness in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unkindness/#x3)
- Unkindness to animals is wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unkindness/#x4)
- He remembered every small unkindness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unkindness/#x5)
- Kindness wins over unkindness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unkindness/#x6)
- He encountered bad weather, heavy seas, unkindness, and hard men--such were his experiences, for he became ship-boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unkindness/#x7)

### note

Usually uncountable; countable for single acts (an unkindness). Adjective: unkind; opposite: kindness.

### In the corpora

- [Paying a frenemy back with the same unkindness usually makes two frenemies and two unhappy people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/28/)
- [The myth was convenient, and convenient myths can hide unkindness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unkindness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unkindness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.