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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
There is no need to be uncharitable.
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Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
25 Apr. 2026
Recall that Huffines unsuccessfully challenged Abbott in the 2022 GOP primary for governor and had some uncharitable things to say about him.
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John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
15 Feb. 2026
The only way to get to that conclusion, however, is to make a lot of uncharitable assumptions about Kimmel’s thinking.
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Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
18 Sep. 2025
An uncharitable strike zone led to a pair of walks, and Yoan Moncada punched a single to double the early advantage against him.
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Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for uncharitable
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
25 Apr. 2026
Recall that Huffines unsuccessfully challenged Abbott in the 2022 GOP primary for governor and had some uncharitable things to say about him.
—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
15 Feb. 2026
The only way to get to that conclusion, however, is to make a lot of uncharitable assumptions about Kimmel’s thinking.
—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
18 Sep. 2025
An uncharitable strike zone led to a pair of walks, and Yoan Moncada punched a single to double the early advantage against him.
—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for uncharitable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncharitable
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Across 15 tracks, the rapper and producer get to work making their first proper body of work together as memorable as expected, delving into relationship mishaps, selfish tendencies, and the absurdist comedy that is real life.
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Politics, Lander said, didn’t have to be a selfish endeavor driven by ego.
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Natural selection is usually ruthless about weeding out traits with no function.
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Supergirl builds to a final showdown with Krem of the Yellow Hills, the ruthless Brigands leader who murdered Ruthye’s family and poisoned Krypto early in the film.
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Determination and careful calculations — hold on, carry the 2 — are a must.
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Graduate students face lower federal limits and the loss of Grad PLUS, requiring careful financial planning.
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The poem that precedes it, the Iliad, is a cruel and beautiful work, the ultimate story of war; the Odyssey has its warlike passages, but its central energies seem almost commonplace beside the merciless fury of Achilles.
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Humility is the posture; the standard is merciless.
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Suzanne’s ungenerous view of herself is one of many misperceptions that will be overturned—some gently, some not.
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There’s a generous and an ungenerous reading of Carole Radziwill returning to RHONY.
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Oscar Wilde, for example, reposes beneath a hulking deity whose iconoclastic castration, back in 1961, did little to restrain pilgrims seeking to smear red lips across his stony physique.
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Instead of looking like a sleek urban loft, the room can quickly start to feel cold, stony, and impersonal.
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The Sudanese conflict has conscripted the neighboring countries who are selfishly courting either faction for resources or political standing, as well as greedy, exploitative foreign powers who repeatedly leverage religious and cultural tensions in the region, into the fight for profit.
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Next to him were Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, all left-leaning candidates running on a platform that includes abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and taking on bad landlords and greedy corporations.
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This is the most parsimonious way to account for the unified nature of consciousness, according to subcorticalists.
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What fraction visible at basically every U.S. gas station originated as a parsimonious response to a 1932 one-penny gas tax?
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“Uncharitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncharitable. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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