kindlessly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈkaɪnd.ləs.li/

Definition of kindlessly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (archaic, rare)Heartlessly, without kindness.
    “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.”
    “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,”
    “For I was lowly born, by fate betrayed. / And by my parents kindlessly designed / To marry one whom fate my equal made ;”
    “Eunonia, — Oh, my lord, / I have maligned thee! — vilely, kindlessly!”
    “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.””

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Etymology

From kind (“benevolent; affectionate; mild”) + -less + -ly. Compare kindless (“unnatural”), from kind (“inherent quality, nature”) + -less. Attested from the 19th century.

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