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English Dictionary: unkindly by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
unkindly
adv
  1. in an unkind manner or with unkindness; "The teacher treats the children unkindly"
    Antonym(s): kindly
adj
  1. lacking in sympathy and kindness; "unkindly ancts" [syn: unkindly, unsympathetic]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Unkindly \Un*kind"ly\, a.
      1. Not kindly; unkind; ungracious.
  
      2. Unnatural; contrary to nature. [Obs.] [bd]Unkindly
            crime.[b8] --Spenser.
  
      3. Unfavorable; annoying; malignant. --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Unkind \Un*kind"\, a.
      1. Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or
            kindred; unnatural. [Obs.] [bd]Such unkind
            abominations.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      2. Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or
            the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.
  
                     He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most
                     unkind that forgetteth.                     --Sir T.
                                                                              Elyot.
            -- {Un*kind"ly}, adv. -- {Un*kind"ness}, n.
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