unkindly

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"Your\n phone's got feet on," he says, not unkindly.

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Quick take

lacking in sympathy and kindness; "unkindly ancts"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of unkindly gathered in one view.

adjective

lacking in sympathy and kindness; "unkindly ancts"

adverb

in an unkind manner or with unkindness; "The teacher treats the children unkindly"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unkindly.

adjective

lacking in sympathy and kindness; "unkindly ancts"

adverb

in an unkind manner or with unkindness; "The teacher treats the children unkindly"

Example sentences

"Your\n phone's got feet on," he says, not unkindly.

No; but surely you're not unkindly construing I wrote too many lines?

"By all means, disagree with me but you could have made this comment less unkindly.

Sorry if this is unkindly and defeatist for you.

What you unkindly label as whining, I see as advocacy for a good cause.

Of course they would react unkindly to being called out on it but I would advise you not to take their defensive lashing out at face value.

I was on the other side of this argument at times like that - expressing the obvious and true, perhaps unkindly.

The original comment was unkindly short, but however it was meant, it was accurate.

Aren't you glad you live in the era of "evergreen" software?I sincerely believe IT people of the future will look back unkindly on this trend.

I get it, those jolts appear to help sometimes, but ideally we'd treat it with the seriousness it deserves whether it was presented kindly or unkindly.

I can well imagine that the quote is accurate, although it would have been said with a certain sense of dark humour and sympathy, not at all as unkindly and aggressive as it appears in print.

While I don't mean this unkindly, it appears to be a combination of "web" and "rupt" which immediately puts me in mind of of the words "bankrupt" and "abrupt" as well as other words containing or ending in "rupt", most of which have slightly negative connotations stemming from its Latin origin meaning "to break".