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1
giving or sharing in abundance and without hesitation
- neighbors were unsparing in their charity when a local family was rendered homeless by a fire
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- cheap,
- close,
- closefisted,
- costive,
- illiberal
- [archaic],
- mingy,
- miserly,
- niggardly,
- parsimonious,
- penurious,
- selfish,
- stingy,
- stinting,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- uncharitable,
- ungenerous
2
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
- unsparing in his criticism of the welfare state
Synonyms for unsparing
- affectless,
- callous,
- case-hardened,
- cold-blooded,
- compassionless,
- desensitized,
- hard,
- hard-boiled,
- hard-hearted,
- heartless,
- indurate,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- insensate,
- insensitive,
- ironhearted,
- merciless,
- obdurate,
- pachydermatous,
- pitiless,
- remorseless,
- ruthless,
- slash-and-burn,
- soulless,
- stony
- (also stoney),
- stonyhearted,
- take-no-prisoners,
- thick-skinned,
- uncharitable,
- unfeeling,
- unmerciful,
- unsympathetic
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- grim,
- hard-bitten,
- harsh,
- heavy-handed,
- ironfisted,
- ironhanded,
- jackbooted,
- knock-down, drag-out
- (or knock-down-and-drag-out),
- oppressive,
- rough,
- rough-and-tumble,
- severe,
- sledgehammer,
- stern,
- tough,
- ungentle
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“Unsparing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsparing. Accessed 11 May. 2021.
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The first known use of unsparing was circa 1586
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