Mean-spirited

Usage examples of unkind.

God is he, for still The great Gods wander on our mortal ways, And watch their altars upon mead or hill And taste our sacrifice, and hear our lays, And now, perchance, will heed if any prays, And now will vex us with unkind control, But anywise must man live out his days, For Fate hath given him an enduring soul.

But hearing the unkind remarks the man made about her uncles, Clair threw caution to the wind.

So the offer of arms and ammunition was no idle one and it was the most unkind cut the dacoit leader could have delivered to the head of the Special Dacoity Police Force.

This about the Pyncheon chickens--facetious enough but cruelly unkind!

For Dorothy, having read so many unkind things said about Betty Raye by the other candidates, the Carnie Boofer speech was the last straw.

Mutimer, upon whom time has laid unkind hands since last we saw her, is pouring tea for Alice Rodman, who has just come all the way from the West End to visit her.

Attempts by listeners to find this titillating volume resulted in frustration and angrily unkind implications that Shepherd and the truth were not on the best of terms.

There seemed something about it unknightly, unkind and cowardly, almost base.

I have been untactful and unkind, but I wished to make this contact before your arrival was widely known.

He was uncomfortable now, not because Chavens expression was unkind, but because he had forgotten how sharp the physicians eyes werelike the boys but with nothing hidden, a fierce, fierce cleverness that was always watching.

Lusena had never regretted these fifteen years, though now and then both Bardy and Finnan had unkind words about her dedication.

And now, though Tom knew Dickie was still firm about their going alone, Dickie was being more than usually attentive to Marge, just because he realised that she would be lonely here by herself, and that it was essentially unkind of them not to ask her along.

I must leave you, because Nurse Pinner seems not to be very well, and it would be too unkind in me not to visit her, and perhaps take her something to tempt her appetite.

The stately or, as an unkind observer might have put it, the ramshackly form of the senior partner was a constant figure in all the courts, from that of the coroner on the one hand to the appellate tribunals upon the other.

Arlbery appeared to her indelicate, unkind, and ungenerous, and regretting she had ever seen, and repenting she had ever known her, she sunk upon a chair in a passionate burst of tears.