Kind
Kind adjective - Given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others.
Usage example: providing the grieving widow with a homemade meal was a kind deed
Unkind
Unkind adjective - Lacking kindness.
Usage example: a thoughtless and unkind remark
Nearby Word: unkindly
Both words in one sentence
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In The Twelve Months, a tale of the "kind and unkind girls" has the girls meet up with the personified months.
Source: Anthropomorphic Personification -
You can't understand what causes them to switch between kind and unkind, and they refuse to change their behavior.
Source: Film / The Prestige - In all variants of "The Kind and Unkind Girls", the unkind girl behaves badly toward a stranger or employer and is cursed.
Source: Curse
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