uncharitable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- uncharitableness noun
- uncharitably adverb
Etymology
Origin of uncharitable
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; un- 1, charitable
Example Sentences
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“I see you’re as uncharitable with yourself as you are with others,” I replied.
From Literature
Critics took issue with the book’s uncharitable caricatures of people assumed to be in the author’s life.
I’d heard my daddy called a lot of things these past few months since he died—most of them were uncharitable to his character—but the one that stuck in my mind was “abolitionist.”
From Literature
He’s going out not with something tame and manicured but with an overstuffed, vigorous, seething story about the roots of fascism that only an uncharitable viewer would call a catastrophe.
From Los Angeles Times
Oh, well, thank goodness, I thought, sarcastically and, perhaps, a bit uncharitably.
From New York Times
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