UNCHARITABLENESS Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

uncharitableness

noun

as in ruthlessness

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Noun

The army Mladic created to fight in Bosnia was a model of ruthlessness, daring and brutality in the Serb warrior tradition, once prized in the life-or-death partisan struggle against the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia in World War Two.

— Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
The danger occurs if that ruthlessness veers into institutional coldness.

— James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of ruthlessness

Noun

Manipulation, escalation, flattery and vindictiveness are not the unavoidable price of sounding natural.

— Puneet Gaur, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Last month, Judge Crenshaw concluded that while there was insufficient evidence to prove actual vindictiveness, the government could not justify its sudden shift from wanting to deport Abrego Garcia to prosecuting him.

— Laura Romero, ABC News, 22 June 2026

Definition of vindictiveness

Noun

Wilkinson countered that what was at issue was that the network has to go through the early renewal process at all, characterizing it as an act of retaliation that is ripe for district court review.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
The retaliation begins outside the chapel, where Ellen uses her bow to quietly pick off the guard escorting the hostages, allowing the women to escape and seize his weapons.

— Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of retaliation

Noun

The people familiar with the discussions spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid retribution from the administration.

— Rick Maese, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026
Democratic officials have pushed back on those characterizations, described the moves as retribution and said such cuts will harm vulnerable populations.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of retribution

Noun

McKinsey was charged in Alameda County with one count of cruelty to a child and corporal injury to a child, both misdemeanors.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Almost a decade later in its Broadway debut, it’s lost none of that, and White’s production — perhaps inevitably given the arc of those passing years — adds sharpness to its cruelties and weight to its grief.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of cruelty

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Everything was restructured in service to this one goal, which was to protect our country from another terrorist attack and to seek revenge on those people who had attacked us.

— Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
Don’t miss it when the puck drops tonight as the Ducks look for revenge and the Golden Knights start their march back to the Stanley Cup Finals.

— OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of revenge

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