What is "unkindness"

Usage examples of "unkindness".

He had seen through the maternal precautions the last time he was at home, and talking with Cupples about it, who secretly wished for no better luck than that Alec should fall in love with Annie, had his feelings strengthened as to the unkindness, if not injustice, of throwing her periodically into such a dungeon as the society of the Bruces.

Delaunay murmured, no protest at my unkindness, gazing past me at some memory beyond my ken.

Once when h was scolding a frail incumbent who found it impossible t raise money for the church debt the big woman came ragin out and scourged him for his unkindness to the meek old man who had more holiness in his big toe than His Lordship in his whole lardy body.

How much of the disease, how much of the corruption, how much of the unkindness, how much of the cruelty, how much of all that still remains in us of the animal, might have been outgrown, sloughed off, put underneath our feet!

John thought one or two of his encomiums on Lady Harriet Denbigh, the sister of his grace, augured that the unkindness of Emily might in time be forgotten.

Every night she chid herself for doing what she had never done before--for nourishing unkindness.

The carrion crows wheeled about the gatehouse in raucous unkindness and quarreled upon the ramparts over every eye, screaming and cawing at each other and taking to the air whenever a sentry passed along the battlements.

Finally, don Juan had me shift into heightened awareness and explained that their laugh ter was not unkindness on their part, or the result of a weird sense of humor, but the genuine expression of happiness at seeing me advance in the path of knowl edge.

It would only be a terrible unkindness to hold out such false hopes to poor Rex.

Has perchance the old Nokomis, Has my wife, my Minnehaha, Wronged or grieved you by unkindness, Failed in hospitable duties?

Also, as incident after incident of our comradeship came thronging into my mind out of the past, I noticed that they were mainly cases where I had wronged him or hurt him, and they rebuked me and reproached me, and my heart was wrung with remorse, just as it is when we remember our unkindnesses to friends who have passed beyond the veil, and we wish we could have them back again, if only for a moment, so that we could go on our knees to them and say, "Have pity, and forgive.

I was feeling bad for the unkindnesses I had dealt Avelyn, and I could see you had come to love her, which only made me feel doubly bad.

Like most people, I had undoubtedly been guilty of many small unkindnesses but they had been of such a minor nature that they had passed out of my mind.