UNCHARITABLE Synonyms: 199 Similar and Opposite Words

uncharitable

adjective

ˌən-ˈcha-rə-tə-bəl

Definition of uncharitable

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 His uncharitable behavior and boundless love of money wins no converts to the Christian faith. — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 18 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

Adjective

Also on Weekend Update, James Austin Johnson portrayed a selfish Kevin O’Leary, the Shark Tank investor who is backing a massive data center campus in northwest Utah.

— William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2026
That’s also how Violet is thinking about their portrayal of Maureen, whose eccentric performance art and selfish behavior often give the character a bad rap.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of selfish

Adjective

Today, it is widely known that coal miners of the 19th and early 20th centuries experienced ruthless exploitation and hazardous working conditions.

— Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
Involuntary bumping is more ruthless, denying boarding to passengers in a joyless game of musical plane seats.

— Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of ruthless

Adjective

Along with potentially leeching microplastics into your food, plastic food storage containers absorb stains, odors, and flavors, and many require careful hand-washing to prevent them from warping.

— Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2026
Gallery visitors were careful not to step on the sprawling assemblage of photographs, drawings and artifacts scattered across the floor.

— Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of careful

Adjective

It would be seen as a work of merciless autofiction in the vein of Karl Ove Knausgaard, and it would be discussed, as his books are, as aggressive, antisocial, and spiteful.

— B. D. McClay, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
In the story, Ria teams up with her foster mother and their fellow punks to resist a merciless developer intent on tearing down their building.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of merciless

Adjective

In my own cautionary tale, Sister needs redemption as much as Scrooge does; events of the past have made her bitter, ungenerous, and generally no fun to be around.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
Despite recent increases, the state pension is relatively ungenerous, though Britons do have good private pensions.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of ungenerous

Adjective

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.

— Emily Cox, ARTnews.com, 22 May 2026
Instead of looking like a sleek urban loft, the room can quickly start to feel cold, stony, and impersonal.

— Natasha Bazika, Martha Stewart, 9 May 2026

Definition of stony

Adjective

The greedy Colonel Pyncheon accused a man named Matthew Maule of witchcraft, in order to steal his property.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
The toys were not purloined, kidnapped, auctioned by Sotheby's or flipped by greedy collectors on eBay.

— STEVE HENDRIX THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of greedy

Adjective

The pasta—a hair clump of noodles in a soupy, sweetish tomato sauce—came in one of those parsimonious bowls with a small hollow in the middle and a rim as broad as Saturn’s rings.

— Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
This one seemed slow and turgid, and the Australian attack was parsimonious, with only the sixth bowler used, Ash Gardner, going at more than 10 runs an over in her three overs.

— Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 July 2026