Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Exhibiting or feeling no kindness or compassion; heartless.
- adjective Obsolete Inhuman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without natural affection; unnatural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Destitute of kindness; unnatural.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Destitute of
kindness ;unnatural .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dear kindless – I asked your friend Mr. Bill, but he could NOT find any correspondence from YOU slamming him for his assertions about Saddam Hussein.
Think Progress » Bush Considering Replacing McClellan With Fox News Anchor Tony Snow 2006
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And to be fair, I did sort of force them on her, an act of kindless, but let's face it, she didn't ask for them, just thougth I'd be nice in the spirit of her kind recommendation.
Thoughts on…Recommending Comics | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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His friendship with Scrotes had given him to feel kinder to the world; their parting had left him kindless.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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His friendship with Scrotes had given him to feel kinder to the world; their parting had left him kindless.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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I believe nobleness kindless nobleness; as love engenders love, so too, nobleness engenders nobleness.
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Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! and culminates in Hamlet's cry
The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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_ Lady, you misjudge my purpose -- true, that once I proved myself your foe, perhaps a kindless one; time and pity have extinguished hate.
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Tender and agreeable sentiments steal into the soul, and are by the smallest opposition wound up into the most impetuous fury: Jealousy kindless with love; discord triumphs; and the gentlest of passions requires sacrifices of human blood to appease it.
Second Part 1909
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It was a sad, gloomy, kindless November night, when Godfrey arrived in London.
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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The bleak, kindless wind was hissing through those pines that clothed the hill above
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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