uncharitableness

noun

Definition of uncharitablenessnext
as in ruthlessness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncharitableness
  1. vengeance
  2. retribution
  3. cruelty
  4. revenge
  5. virulence
  6. hatred
  7. barbarity
  8. savagery
Noun
  • Now that Trump is poised to enter the White House, as if to underscore the feeling of political vengeance, the lawyers who made the arguments on his behalf will become important officials in his Justice Department.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2024
  • After being gone for well over a year, here's hoping that Milano will return with a vengeance and keep the Bills as playoff favorites.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of vengeance
Noun
  • Conservatives see opposition lawmakers’ resistance as retribution for their criminal investigations of Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party and Yoon’s rival in the 2022 election.
    Stella Kim, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The book follows 19-year-old Feyre, who kills a wolf in the woods and has to face a beast-like creature who arrives to demand retribution for it.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of retribution
Noun
  • By separating the cruelty from the constructive, a company can turn criticism into a catalyst for meaningful growth.
    Molly McPherson, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The 17-year-old was charged with animal cruelty, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in jail, according to an arrest affidavit released in late November.
    Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • Related Stories Christopher joined One Life to Live in 1990 as the drug trafficker Carlo — he was only supposed to work one day on the daytime drama — and would seek revenge against the Buchanan family after his son Johnny (Anthony Crivello) is killed by Viki Buchanan (Erika Slezak).
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
  • At the time, many white nationalists in the 1970s and 1980s were disillusioned by the U.S. failure to win the Vietnam War and wanted to exact a kind of revenge.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of revenge
Noun
  • An ePPP is a pathogen that has been modified to enhance its transmissibility and virulence.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Still others are investigating viruses that attack Bd and eventually might be used to reduce its virulence.
    Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of virulence
Noun
  • All of the hatred and violence of their relationship all culminated in this moment.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
  • But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of hatred
Noun
  • The dehumanizing treatment prisoners received on Devil’s Island was, in effect, a continuation of the barbarity long inflicted on French Guiana’s enslaved population.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Guillén’s 2017 caricature shows Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro clubbing a woman representing democracy to a bloody pulp, the way his security forces were savaging pro-democracy demonstrators that year — barbarity a U.N. report designated as crimes against humanity.
    Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
Definition of barbarity
Noun
  • Hamas’s savagery was backed by an aggressive Iran that is supported by the authoritarian axis; as such, October 7 was a direct assault on the free world.
    Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The point of all that money, like of the attack on Porter, has been to draw attention to Silicon Valley’s financial might—and to prove that its leaders are capable of political savagery in order to protect their interests.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of savagery
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uncharitable

uncharitableness

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