kind thing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkindandthing
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kind
noun[C]
uk/kaɪnd/us/kaɪnd/
a group with similar characteristics, or a ...
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thing
noun
uk/θɪŋ/us/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofkindandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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From that point, certainly, we are going to have to think very carefully about whether it is morally right to do the honest orkindthing.
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It would not only be a fair but akindthingto grant them this small concession.
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That may be a wise andkindthingto say or sing in the war: it is certainly not for peacetime constitutional reform.
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Surely thekindthingto do would be to sit down and let us have a vote.
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That is perhaps not akindthingto say, but to allow a man to live in hope which cannot be realised is more unkind.
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His poetry also carries the idea that nature is akindthing, living in peaceful co-existence with man.
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Putting him down was thekindthingto do.
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I should also like to thank him for the far too kind things he said about me personally at the beginning of his speech.
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The first is to express my gratitude, inadequately it may be, for the far too kind things that have been said about me this afternoon.
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I would like to join with him most warmly in the kind things he said about the nursing profession.
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He said some kind things about the work of the all-party parliamentary mental health committee, and myself.
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I would also thank them for the kind things they said about me.
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I also thank him for the kind things he said about me.
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I like to get the kind things over first.
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I am grateful for the kind things that were said about the way in which we were prepared to respond.
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I am grateful for the kind things that have been said about me.
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I should have acknowledged the almost embarrassingly courteous and kind things that he said about me on that occasion.
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It sent me a document that showed a nice picture of him visiting that organisation and described the kind things he said about it.
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Many kind things have been said about him.
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I thank them also for the kind things that have been said about myself which are less deserved.
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