noun

• Inconsiderate and harsh behavior.

  ‘she had had enough of her father's unkindness’

  More example sentences

  • ‘‘Meanness’ connotes not only the personal characteristics of spite, unkindness, or aggression, but also the social conditions of shabbiness and impoverishment.’
  • ‘In the face of your inconsideration or unkindness, I may experience pain, indignation, chagrin, shame, annoyance, bashfulness and more besides.’
  • ‘In apparently impossible circumstances, where nothing but harshness and unkindness prevail, two human beings make contact, or at least one reaches out a hand to another.’
  • ‘Certainly, that notion is incompatible with cruelty and unkindness to one another.’
  • ‘Cruelty to animals, deliberate unkindness, bullying smaller children: these were major crimes.’