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Lacking in sympathy
Answer for the clue "Lacking in sympathy ", 8 letters:
unkindly
Word definitions for unkindly in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unkind \Un*kind"\, a. Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural. [Obs.] ``Such unkind abominations.'' --Chaucer. Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "unsuitably, improperly," from un- (1) "not" + kindly (adv.). From mid-15c. as "discourteously, maliciously."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In an unkind manner.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. lacking in sympathy and kindness; "unkindly ancts" [syn: unsympathetic ] adv. in an unkind manner or with unkindness; "The teacher treats the children unkindly" [ant: kindly ]
Usage examples of unkindly.
Archie had moved back and given her an uninterrupted view of the work of art, and she had started as if some unkindly disposed person had driven a bradawl into her.
At tea-time, and during the early part of the evening, she was preoccupied and inclined to be irritable in her anxiety, and she snubbed Bunty two or three times quite unkindly.
Then she took the package from her bosom, and gave it with averted face to Master Byles Gridley, who, on receiving it, made her a formal but not unkindly bow, and bade her good evening.
Tamar bristled slightly at that, and the eldress laughed at her, a little unkindly.
The faces of such priests as these--and I should say such priests form a full half of the North Italian priesthood--are perfectly free from that bad furtive expression which we associate with priestcraft, and which, when seen, cannot be mistaken: their faces are those of our own best English country clergy, with perhaps a trifle less flesh about them and a trifle more of a not unkindly asceticism.
Border Patrol dealt unkindly with Spad Ames, and double-crossed him by transferring another plane, a new and fast craft equipped with two machine guns, to that portion of the Mexican Border Patrol.
She was fond of all living things, wrote Annie, and would not have them treated unkindly.
Miranda put away her mirror and looked Barnacle up and down, critically but not unkindly.
Marta chided her in Italian, although not unkindly, for slicing the panforte too thinly.
Do not unkindly withhold this dear, this soft, this gentle hand- one moment, perhaps, tears you for ever from me- nothing less than this cruel occasion could, I believe, have ever conquered the respect and awe with which you have inspired me.
But his sudden, gratuitous advice, not unkindly spoken, had induced in Maia a typically spontaneous impulse towards the only kind of reciprocation at her command.
He nodded kindly at them, who looked fuzzily, he being spectacleless, but unkindly back.
I don't say it unkindly, Bibbs, but you got to do something for yourself mentally, just like what's begun physically.
Lunzie could take an unkindly delight in the discomforts caused others by over indulgence.
But never was I false to thee, nor much less ever thought, as thou most unkindly accusest me, to compass thy destruction.