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Unkindly   Listen
adjective
Unkindly  adj.  
1.
Not kindly; unkind; ungracious.
2.
Unnatural; contrary to nature. (Obs.) "Unkindly crime."
3.
Unfavorable; annoying; malignant.






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"Unkindly" Quotes from Famous Books



... you presume too much On th' extremity of passion. Have I not answerd many an idle letter With full assurance that I cannot love? Have I not often viva voce checkt Your courtly kindnes, frownd upon your smiles, Usde you unkindly, all to weane your love? And doe you still persever in your suite? I tell thee, Burbon, this bold part of thine, To breake into my Tent at dead of night, Deserves severe correction, and the more Because it brings ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III • Various

... not your home now. Other people live there, and you have no right to come back. Why did you run away from the Asylum? Did they treat you unkindly?" ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

... the brains of a rabbit and the tongue of a viper, and perhaps that best explains her. She meant to be kind, I think, but she was without exception the silliest and most empty-headed person I have ever known. I do not say this unkindly; she gave me what she could, and it was very little—just clothes and food; but of sympathy or human understanding not a particle. And so it followed that I was very lonely, which may in part account for ...
— East of the Shadows • Mrs. Hubert Barclay

... will get no recruits here,' interrupted the Bundist, not unkindly. He added with a sneer: 'These gentlemen of the P.P.P. and the P.P.N. and the P.P.D. are all ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... hawsses, friend," advised the ex-guerrilla, not unkindly. "There's no occasion whatever for you to run on the rope. We are six to two, countin' the kid, who's got about all he can carry for one day. We're here askin' questions, an' it's reasonable ...
— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine


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