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UNCHARITABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncharitable mean? 

UNCHARITABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNCHARITABLE has 1 sense:

1. lacking love and generosityplay

  Familiarity information: UNCHARITABLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNCHARITABLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking love and generosity

Context example:

all pious words and uncharitable deeds

Also:

stingy; ungenerous (unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.))

meanspirited; ungenerous (lacking in magnanimity)

Antonym:

charitable (full of love and generosity)


 Context examples 


Very smart of you to notice it, but rather uncharitable to suggest that it was cause and effect.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is an excellent man, most exemplary in every way; and he pointed out to her that she ought, as a Christian, to reconcile herself to the sacrifice (especially as it was so uncertain), and to bear no uncharitable feeling towards me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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