unkindness, diskindness†; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood;
enmity &c 889; hate &c 898; malignity; malice, malice prepense†;
maliciousness &c adj.; spite, despite; resentment &c 900.
uncharitableness &c adj.; incompassionateness &c 914.1 [Obs.];
gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity†, acerbity
churlishness &c (discourtesy) 895.
hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness &c
adj.; brutality, savagery; ferity†, ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity,
immanity†, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture,
vivisection.
ill turn, bad turn; affront &c (disrespect) 929; outrage,
atrocity; ill usage; intolerance, persecution; tender mercies [Iron.];
unkindest cut of all [Julius Caesar].
V. be malevolent &c adj.; bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge,
harbor a grudge, bear malice; betray the cloven foot, show the cloven
foot.
hurt &c (physical pain) 378; annoy &c 830; injure., harm, wrong;
do harm to, do an ill office to; outrage; disoblige, malign, plant a
thorn in the breast.
molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at;
play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress,
grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use.
wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the
wheel; dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood; have no
mercy &c 914.1.
Adj. malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign; ill-disposed, ill-intentioned,
ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived; evil-minded, evil-
disposed; black-browed†.
malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful;
mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent;
unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling.
harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious†;
invidious; uncandid; churlish &c (discourteous) 895; surly, sullen &c
901.1.
cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; black-hearted, hard-hearted,
flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted; hard of heart, unnatural;
ruthless &c (unmerciful) 914.1; relentless &c (revengeful) 919.
cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a
tiger; ferine†, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric,
fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty &c
(murderous) 361; atrocious; bloodyminded†.
fiendish, fiendlike†; demoniacal; diabolic, diabolical; devilish,
infernal, hellish, Satanic; Tartaran.
Adv. malevolently &c adj.; with bad intent &c n..
Phr. cruel as death; hard unkindness' alter'd eye [Gray]; homo homini
lupus [Lat.] [Plautus]; mala mens [Lat.], malus animus [Lat.]
[Terence]; rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind [Hamlet];
sharp-tooth'd unkindness [Lear].