unkindly
Adjective
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Adjective
unkindly
- Not kindly.
- Not kind#Adjective|kind, lacking in friendliness, warm-heartedness or sympathy.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 2,
- Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment.
- 1906, E. Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4,
- […] she had seen a not unkindly wink pass between the two.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 2,
- (archaic) Rough, unfavourable, bad.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, London: Henry Brome, “Cyrus-Garden, or The Quincunx Naturally Considered,” p. 130,
- From this superfluous pulp in unkindely, and wet years, may arise that multiplicity of little insects, which infest the Roots and Sprouts of tender Graines and pulses.
- 1789, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital” in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, 1834, Volume 1, p. 5,
- Unkindly cold and tempest shrill
- In life’s morn oft the traveller chill,
- 1658, Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, London: Henry Brome, “Cyrus-Garden, or The Quincunx Naturally Considered,” p. 130,
- (obsolete) Unnatural, contrary to the natural or proper order of things.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 1, p. 10,
- That detestable sight him much amazde,
- To see th’vnkindly Impes of heauen accurst,
- Deuoure their dam#Etymology_2|dam;
- 1678, Robert Sanderson (theologian), Nine Cases of Conscience Occasionally Determined, London: H. Brome et al., p. 128,
- […] the want of mercy in a Father, is more unkindly, more unseemly, more unnatural than in another man […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 1, p. 10,
- Not kind#Adjective|kind, lacking in friendliness, warm-heartedness or sympathy.
unkindly
- In an unkind manner.
- circa 1593 William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 1,
- Good master, take it not unkindly, pray,
- That I have been thus pleasant [i.e. joking] with you both.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood, p. ,
- […] I had over-heard them several times talking very Unkindly about me;
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Chapter 20,
- If she and John love one another, they can wait, and test the love by doing so. She is conscientious, and I have no fear of her treating him unkindly.
- 1918, Rose Macaulay, What Not, London: Constable, Chapter 11, p. 222,
- Chester and Prideaux were dragged firmly but not unkindly down the stairs and out through the door.
- circa 1593 William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 1,
- (obsolete) In an unnatural manner.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 455-458,
- All th’ unaccomplisht works of Natures hand,
- Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt,
- Dissolvd on earth, fleet hither, and in vain,
- Till final dissolution, wander here,
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 455-458,
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