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the most unkindest cut of all

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the most unkindest cut of all

The most hurtful or malicious thing that one could say to another. The phrase orginated in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in a description of Caesar's murder. Hearing my own mother attack my decision to adopt a child was the most unkindest cut of all.

See also: all, cut, most, of, unkind