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- adjective
superlative form ofkind : mostkind .
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Examples
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What about the Motown “boy” who wrote a song and went to the White House for a private performance just to encourage her after the turmoil of the Lewinsky scandal which in her book she described as the kindest thing anyone had ever done for her.
Clinton: ‘The Boys’ Made Me Tough - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I call the kindest and most beautiful person I have ever known, and in my eyes ... '
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This video is also my first memorial to the person I call the kindest and most beautiful person I have ever known, and in my eyes ... '
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If, when I apply to you, I break off in half-words, do you supply them — the kindest are your due. —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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More than ever he is sage first then satirist: remember, says Judge Kenton in a speech which sounds none the less like him for being so much like Howells, that wherever life is simplest and purest and kindest, that is the highest civilization.
Chapter 6. Howells and Realism. Section 2. William Dean Howells 1921
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"Well, don't forget about it; and remember that wherever life is simplest and purest and kindest, that is the highest civilization."
The Kentons William Dean Howells 1878
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So far, the kindest description, and I use the word "kindest" loosely, has come from a coworker who said that the show was so awful she felt compelled to watch it and then felt her eyes kinda burning.
Observation #942 mariness 2006
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"One of our chaps named Sam," went on Henry -- "one of the best an 'kindest' earted chaps that ever breathed."
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When first meeting with primitive races, the Europeans usually make a caricature of their life; but when an intelligent man has stayed among them for a longer time, he generally describes them as the "kindest" or "the gentlest" race on the earth.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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Thanking Australia for being the "kindest" country to them, singer Marcus Mumford dedicated their Triple J Hottest 100-topping single Little Lion Man to Splendour In The Grass.
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