kindlessly

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1. archaicrareHeartlessly, without kindness.

   Eunonia, — Oh, my lord, / I have maligned thee! — vilely, kindlessly!

   1902, Godfrey Egremont, “A Noble Love”, in Verse, page 260

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   Mrs. Preston sighed, and became silent. She felt as if she were kindlessly abandoning friends and neighbours in their utmost need ; especially one left in peculiar loneliness.

   1826, Anna Maria Porter, Honor O'Hara, volume III, page 379

   But, by my troth, me kindlessly she mocked / By wedding me unto a barren man / Who taunts my fancy with a thousand dreams / Of joy acquired, still lacking all the joy,

   1873, Edward Brenon, “Joseph and Amensis”, in The Witch of Nemi, and Other Poems, page 178

   For I was lowly born, by fate betrayed. / And by my parents kindlessly designed / To marry one whom fate my equal made ;

   1883, Richard Watson Dixon, Mano, page 32

   He [Jackie Robinson] moved on from Chock full o’ Nuts and took jobs with a variety of start-up enterprises […] None of these ventures were notably successful, and Dick Young wrote kindlessly in his tabloid column, “Robinson’s tragedy is that nothing he has done outside of baseball equals what he accomplished within the game.”

   2006, Roger Kahn, Into My Own, page 188