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as in selfish
giving or sharing as little as possible
an uncharitable couple who wouldn't even donate food to needy families at Thanksgiving
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as in ruthless
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
an uncharitable attitude towards people who give in to alcohol or other temptations
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Recent Examples of uncharitable
An uncharitable soul could regard his output as elevated B-movies with ingenious elevator pitches, and this wouldn’t necessarily be wrong.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2024
An uncharitable explanation would be that the courts seem keen on derailing one of Biden’s signature promises in advance of the November election.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 July 2024
Though that may sound uncharitable, the authors’ research shows that paying nominal fees can give beneficiaries a sense of ownership, boost their engagement, and empower them to demand results.
—Marco Bertini,
jean-Manuel Izaret,
richard Hutchinson, Harvard Business Review, 17 Feb. 2024
An uncharitable read may be that the show is simply trying to emulate the success of the 2023 Hulu series Moving.
—Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 12 June 2024
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2024
An uncharitable explanation would be that the courts seem keen on derailing one of Biden’s signature promises in advance of the November election.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 July 2024
Though that may sound uncharitable, the authors’ research shows that paying nominal fees can give beneficiaries a sense of ownership, boost their engagement, and empower them to demand results.
—Marco Bertini,
jean-Manuel Izaret,
richard Hutchinson, Harvard Business Review, 17 Feb. 2024
An uncharitable read may be that the show is simply trying to emulate the success of the 2023 Hulu series Moving.
—Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 12 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncharitable
Adjective
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Liberals without children fear they are seen as selfish careerists or libertines.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Dropping this much weight in such a short amount of time is both dangerous and, according to his teammates, selfish.—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Be ruthless with your time Top performers who guard their calendar like their bank account report higher satisfaction levels and better business outcomes.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Rendezvous Views The Island has been infused with an abundance of Bars, and now every opportunist is out to hit the jackpot including the ruthless crime kingpin Fletcher Kane.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Effective brainstorming sessions require careful planning and prep.—
Nora Herting,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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Under Jones’ careful direction, the Bulldogs do not beat themselves.—
Jim Root,
The Athletic,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The most intriguing of the Japanese cast is Kasamatsu (a principal character on Max’s Tokyo Vice) as Major Nakamura, a thoughtful man who seems resistant to Colonel Kota’s instruction to be more merciless.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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The temptation is too much for a merciless monarch to resist and she's briefed on the details of the team's counter-terrorism assignment.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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But neither can anyone seriously accuse the United States of being ungenerous with its citizens’ lives and treasure or of having no ideals.—
Joshua Landis,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Jan. 2016
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This is the problem with the show: These women are just concocting reasons why the people on the other side suck, and it’s become the most uncharitable, the most ungenerous thing on Bravo.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
15 July 2024
Adjective
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Consciously or not, Orsolya has played an active role in such urban growth; her job is to evict people from the lots that have been gobbled up by the government and/or greedy real estate developers who want to turn them into condos, chain stores, and luxury hotels.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
19 Feb. 2025
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Many of the Bronx’s Jews were not just liberals but leftists, leading rent strikes against greedy landlords.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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To attribute the corrosion of institutional trust to such bugbears as relativism or postmodernism is to ignore explanations that are both more concrete and more parsimonious.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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In a perfect and parsimonious world, a single two-stage spacecraft would land on Mars, scoop up soil samples in situ, and transfer them to an ascent stage which would blast off into orbit.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
13 Jan. 2025
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With the arrival of pitchers and catchers, one of the coldest and miserly baseball offseasons in memory is nearing conclusion, and it can’t be understated that, other than the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets (on one player), hardly any team spent any money.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2025
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One of the things that bedeviled American politics this century is our close elections, which has made our parties and their leaders miserly with their political capital.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Uncharitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncharitable. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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