unkindly
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Is unkindly a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. Not kindly.Examples: "From this superfluous pulp in unkindely, and wet years, may arise that multiplicity of little insects, which infest the Roots and Sprouts of tender Graines and pulses."; "Unkindly cold and tempest shrill / In life’s morn oft the traveller chill,"archaic
2. Not kindly.Examples: "That detestable sight him much amazde, / To see th’vnkindly Impes of heauen accurst, / Deuoure their dam;"; "1678, Robert Sanderson, Nine Cases of Conscience Occasionally Determined, London: H. Brome et al., p. 128, […] the want of mercy in a Father, is more unkindly, more unseemly, more unnatural than in another man […]"obsolete
adv (English)
1. (obsolete) In an unnatural manner.Examples: "All th’ unaccomplisht works of Natures hand, / Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt, / Dissolvd on earth, fleet hither, and in vain, / Till final dissolution, wander here,"obsolete
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