uncharitableness

noun

as in ruthlessness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncharitableness
  1. ruthlessness
  2. vindictiveness
  3. retaliation
  4. vengeance
  5. retribution
  6. cruelty
  7. revenge
  8. hard-heartedness
Noun
  • There's a tricky tonal balance in treating the lawyers' gasp-inducing ruthlessness as entertaining and even amusing while also allowing its consequences to be clear.
    — Linda Holmes, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026
  • 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
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
  • Taylor could have kept it small and had Aaliyah cast vengeance on Cruz.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Are there stray members of Antaan’s alien faction who came back for further vengeance?
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of vengeance
Noun
  • Over time, Buddhism introduced ideas of reincarnation and karmic retribution, linking a person's fate after death to their actions in life.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Those who provided the information declined to be identified for fear of retribution amid uncertainty over who controlled the city.
    — Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of retribution
Noun
  • Ted Gualtier, owner of Happy Tail Happy Dog, LLC, has been charged by Denver authorities with one count of cruelty to animals.
    — Brian Maass, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Many abolitionists and Quakers – who fought to ban slavery – initially supported the colonization society’s removal efforts as a means for helping Black residents escape the cruelty of American laws, especially the Fugitive Slave Acts.
    — Karen Masterson, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Tarr's reputation for films tinged with misery and hard-heartedness, distinguished by black-and-white cinematography and unusually long sequences, only grew throughout the 1990s and 2000s, particularly after his 1994 film Sátántangó.
    — Alina Edwards, NPR, 6 Jan. 2026
Definition of hard-heartedness
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“Uncharitableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncharitableness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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