UNKINDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unkindly mean? 

• UNKINDLY (adjective)
  The adjective UNKINDLY has 1 sense:

1. lacking in sympathy and kindness

  Familiarity information: UNKINDLY used as an adjective is very rare.

• UNKINDLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNKINDLY has 1 sense:

1. in an unkind manner or with unkindness

  Familiarity information: UNKINDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNKINDLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking in sympathy and kindness

Synonyms:

unkindly; unsympathetic

Context example:

unkindly ancts

Similar:

unkind (lacking kindness)

• UNKINDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an unkind manner or with unkindness

Context example:

The teacher treats the children unkindly

Antonym:

kindly (in a kind manner or out of kindness)

Pertainym:

unkind (lacking kindness)

 Context examples 

Miss Dashwood, cried Willoughby, you are now using me unkindly.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You did me an injustice, Ned, said my uncle, if you thought that I had forgotten you, or that I had judged you unkindly.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This evil thought took possession of her more and more, and made her behave very unkindly to the boy.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Mr. Copperfield,” returned my mother, “is dead, and if you dare to speak unkindly of him to me—”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I take it unkindly of thee, Samkin, that thou shouldst call all eyes thus upon a broken bowman who could once shoot a fair shaft.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She is conscientious, and I have no fear of her treating him unkindly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Besides, he added, not unkindly, as he laid his hand upon the shoulder of the prostrate man, it is better than to fall before some ignoble foe.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My brother had no regard for her; his pleasures were not what they ought to have been, and from the first he treated her unkindly.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I was swept away, but not unkindly, to some distance, where the people around me made me stay; urging, as I confusedly perceived, that he was bent on going, with help or without, and that I should endanger the precautions for his safety by troubling those with whom they rested.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother spoke harshly to her, and after giving her a violent scolding, said unkindly, As you have let the spindle fall into the well you may go yourself and fetch it out.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)