"unkind" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English unkind; equivalent to un- + kind.",
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      "form": "more unkind",
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          "ref": "1950 July 3, “Politicians Without Politics”, in Life, page 16",
          "text": "Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week′s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse, 3rd edition, page 175",
          "text": "We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Edward W. Said, “On Lost Causes”, in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, page 540",
          "text": "In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.",
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        "Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful."
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          "sympathy",
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          "benevolence",
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        [
          "gratitude",
          "gratitude"
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          "cruel",
          "cruel"
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          "harsh"
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          "ref": "1582, Stephen Batman, transl., Batman vppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London, Book 7, Chapter 33",
          "text": "[…] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1617, John Davies, Wits Bedlam, London, Epigram 116",
          "text": "Crowes will not feed their yong til 9. daies old,\nBecause their vnkind colour makes them doubt\nThem to be theirs;",
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      "glosses": [
        "Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural."
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        "(obsolete) Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural."
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        "Having no race or kindred; childless."
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        "(obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless."
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    "Rhymes:English/aɪnd",
    "Rhymes:English/aɪnd/2 syllables"
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      "form": "more unkind",
      "tags": [
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          "ref": "1950 July 3, “Politicians Without Politics”, in Life, page 16",
          "text": "Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week′s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Edward W. Said, “On Lost Causes”, in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, page 540",
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        "Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful."
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          "benevolence",
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          "gratitude",
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          "ref": "1582, Stephen Batman, transl., Batman vppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London, Book 7, Chapter 33",
          "text": "[…] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1617, John Davies, Wits Bedlam, London, Epigram 116",
          "text": "Crowes will not feed their yong til 9. daies old,\nBecause their vnkind colour makes them doubt\nThem to be theirs;",
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        "Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural."
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        "(obsolete) Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural."
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        "Having no race or kindred; childless."
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        "(obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless."
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