unkind

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The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations.

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lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"

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adjective

lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"

adjective

deficient in humane and kindly feelings

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unkind.

adjective

lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"

adjective

deficient in humane and kindly feelings

Example sentences

The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations.

That is unkind - just because you have read about Haiku before, does not mean everyone else has. Filter bubble much?

I don't see people reacting as harshly if it was someone like Jack Valenti that RMS said some unkind posthumous words about.

Being a decent and moral person often requires one to do something that is entirely correct but deeply unkind.

If a particular person did a particular thing to you that's unkind, then you have a right to be aggrieved only with that one person.

Thank you!I was wary of this thread showing up on HN because I felt I was a bit unkind when posting in that thread, but Chris' comment towards me seemed completely unjustified.

Conversely satisfying someone's short term desires in the knowledge that it will probably have a bad effect on them in the long run would - I think - be categorised by most people as unkind.

But arbitrary knowledge of calculus seems unkind and unnecessary.

And I did, and it works for me. Sitting on our high horses and demanding that Nestle's corporate IT department churn out a site worthy of YC-driven-multi-round-venture-funding is counterproductive and unkind.

A person that is probably pretty fucked up right now by the fact that someone he was recently unkind to ended up committing suicide for a reason that's at most, marginally related to his dickish comment.