uncharitable

Adjective

Meaning

Not charitable; contrary to charity; severe in judging; harsh; censorious; as, uncharitable opinions or zeal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

savage remorseless hard mean cold severe harsh brutal cruel unpleasant petty ruthless vicious malicious selfish
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Antonyms

charitable clement beneficent free liberal humane
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Phrases with the word

least uncharitable less uncharitable

Examples

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. Thomas Browne

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one. Herman Melville

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. Herman Melville

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. Joseph Addison

His consolation in those hours when he was most uncharitable to himself is that taken at his very worst he was at least still worthy of being a character in a novel by Balzac, win one day, lose the next, and do it with boom! and baroque in the style. Norman Mailer

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. William James

Close letter words and terms

uncharioted uncharismatic uncharismatically uncharitableness uncharitably uncharity