diskindness

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Etymology[edit]

dis- +‎ kindness

Noun[edit]

diskindness (countable and uncountable, plural diskindnesses)

  1. (uncountable, rare) unkindness
  2. (countable, rare) An unkind act.
    • 1849 Southey's common-place book. Ed. by J.W. Warter
      To do another man a diskindness merely because he has done me one, serves to no good purpose, and to many ill ones.
    • 1988 John Chardin - Travels in Persia, 1673-1677
      it was in his power to do me great diskindnesses, if he should take a fancy to it.

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