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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uncharitable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
uncharitable thoughts
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although, she thought with uncharitable spitefulness, he was old enough to be her father.
▪ In short, I am feeling uncharitable.
▪ Perhaps it was the clash of Third World beach and Dallas skyscraper which triggered my uncharitable scepticism about his extraordinary Utopianism.
▪ Rain felt distinctly uncharitable as she straightened the bed and tried to pretend they had never been there.
▪ Sure, she had indulged in the occasional uncharitable observation that his affection for the child was no more than a front.
▪ Yet how uncharitable to keep this gem to myself.
▪ You got us into this, was my uncharitable thought, now you hold the fort while we climb out of it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uncharitable

Uncharitable \Un*char"i*ta*ble\, a. Not charitable; contrary to charity; severe in judging; harsh; censorious; as, uncharitable opinions or zeal.
--Addison. -- Un*char"i*ta*ble*ness, n. -- Un*char"i*ta*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uncharitable

mid-15c., from un- (1) "not" + charitable (v.). Related: Uncharitably (late 14c.).

Wiktionary
uncharitable

a. Not charitable

WordNet
uncharitable
  1. adj. lacking love and generosity; "all pious words and uncharitable deeds"- Charles Reade [ant: charitable]

  2. harsh and severe; "I hope I'm not being uncharitable but he really is a bore"; "unjust and uncharitable criticism" [syn: unforgiving]

Usage examples of "uncharitable".

Gail felt obscurely obligated to the apprentice for her uncharitable thought that had marked him down as dimmer than he actually was.

May God forgive us all, both laity and clergy, every cruel word, every uncharitable thought, every hasty judgment.

Do Masons no longer form uncharitable opinions of their Brethren, enter harsh judgments against them, and judge themselves by one rule and their Brethren by another?

A bare bulb threw its uncharitable light upon his pale flesh, from which steam rose.

I pretend not to judge the heart, but, without any uncharitable presumption, I must take permission to say, that both Protestant England and Catholic France show an infinitely superior religious and moral aspect to mortal observation, both as to reverend decency of external observance, and as to the inward fruit of honest dealing between man and man.

Well, I should have thought--I should still think--that she would have been pleased--relieved, you know, to find her uncharitable opinion erroneous, and pleased to have it altered on the best authority.

I have been unjust and uncharitable to you, but I hope I will not be so again.

But, after a fume, he put that thought from him as uncharitable and unwarranted, and resolved to obey the summons.

Down in Riversborough yonder some few uncharitable people might tell you there was some suspicion about him, but most of them speak of him still as the kindest and the best man they ever knew.

People would be sure to say that either your words or your deeds were too free, and you might possibly pass a rather uncharitable judgment on me.

Soon after Mantell’s death an arrestingly uncharitable obituary appeared in the Literary Gazette.

And whatever shall turn our thoughts from the unreasoning and uncharitable passions, prejudices, and jealousies incident to a great national trouble such as ours, and serve to fix them on the vast and long-enduring consequences, for weal or for woe, which are to result from the trouble, and especially to strengthen our reliance on the Supreme Being for the final triumph of the right, cannot but be well for us all.

It were a most Unchristian and uncivil, yea a most unreasonable thing to imagine that the Fitt's of the Young Woman were but meer Impostures: And I believe scarce any, but People of a particular Dirtiness, will harbour such an Uncharitable Censure.

All I had on my conscience were a few venial sins of frivolous fornication, plus an uncharitable wish to do Marc and Luc grievous bodily harm because of the cruel way they'd sobered me up.