What's the difference between charitable and uncharitable?

Charitable


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.
  • (a.) Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.
  • (a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution.
  • (a.) Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
  • (2) It argues that Saudi Islamic charitable groups have tended to fund Wahhabist ideology.
  • (3) (You'll also need oxygen if you didn't already know that vital air ambulance services are funded not by our taxes but charitable donations.)
  • (4) Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charitable organisation seen as a front for LeT, operates openly in the country and its leaders frequently appear on television delivering fiery speeches against India.
  • (5) At first, cadres worked undercover, organising clothes sales and other charitable events without stating their true affiliation.
  • (6) Big organisations, whether in the private, public or charitable sectors usually have independent internal audit before getting anywhere near the external auditors.
  • (7) Urdangarin, 47, is accused along with a former business partner of creaming off €6m (US$6.75m) in public funds from contracts awarded to Noos, a charitable foundation which he chaired.
  • (8) Speakers included a physician, a consultant in genitourinary medicine, and a representative from the Terence Higgins Trust -- a charitable body set up to help people with AIDS.
  • (9) "Financial aid for this group was usually provided from London under the pretext of charitable donations.
  • (10) For services to Charitable Fundraising and to the community in Northern Ireland.
  • (11) In 2010 Becht transferred £110m to his charitable trust, which donates to charities such as Médecins Sans Frontières and Save the Children.
  • (12) For charitable services to Hope House Children's Hospice, Wrexham.
  • (13) He has been personally involved since the 2010 World Cup in a charitable project which uses sport to encourage solidarity amongst people of different backgrounds with the central theme that the colour of a person's skin does not matter; they can all play together as a team.
  • (14) Three days ago, accompanying her husband on his accident-prone American visit, Sarah Brown made a speech, little-noted in Britain, to the Clinton Global Initiative, a charitable and lobbying organisation for liberal causes headed by Bill Clinton.
  • (15) Why are we only finding out about the logistical horrors of HS2 because of campaigns for information by charitable organisations?
  • (16) Instead, it comes down to how prepared donors and others are to disrupt the current development model; how prepared we all are to smash the “ charitable industrial complex ”, as Peter Buffet once called it.
  • (17) Isaacs said that the JI Charitable Trust was a passive investor in Smythson through Kelso Place, the private equity group that helped coordinate the purchase.
  • (18) He also helped to organise a Woodcraft group, the local Gingerbread group, a charitable furniture scheme and the local credit union.
  • (19) In a single month the company meets with five ministers: the home secretary, Theresa May, holds bilateral talks; Francis Maude, the minister of state for trade and investment, joins Google at a Tech City event; Lucy Neville-Rolfe, the intellectual property minister, discusses copyright; the international development minister, Grant Shapps, meets with Google Foundation, the firm’s charitable arm, to talk about “innovation in the not-for-profit sector”; and Justin Tomlinson, minister for disabled people, agrees to an introductory meeting.
  • (20) Given what is now known about the way the case was made for launching an arguably illegal war – this country's biggest foreign policy debacle since Suez – Heywood's refusal to release the conversations smacks of a shabby cover-up at worst, or foot-dragging in a moderately more charitable interpretation.

Uncharitable


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
  • (2) Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the gay rights organisation Stonewall, said: "We do think it's very sad that an archbishop should sully the day of the birth of Jesus by making what seem to be such uncharitable observations about other people.
  • (3) Talking of which, a possible stat of the day: 2.47pm BST Reports are circulating that Ricky van Wolfswinkel, absent from Norwich's lineup today, has "stormed" out of Carrow Road, prompting uncharitable questions about whether anyone would notice.
  • (4) Even uncharitable judges of Miliband's leadership accept that his party conference speech last year opened a new front in political combat.
  • (5) "We do think it's very sad that an archbishop should sully the day of the birth of Jesus by making what seem to be such uncharitable observations about other people," said Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the organisation Stonewall, who stressed that polling evidence had suggested that a majority of the general public were in favour of same- sex marriage.
  • (6) Calling actor-musicians “sickening” was uncharitable, especially considering he himself is one; there’s also been the drunken ramble at the Hollywood film awards, or when he flogged himself as a prize on Chinese reality TV.
  • (7) "The strange thing about Damon's songs," said the critic Jim Shelley, "is that, unlike a writer such as Morrissey or Ian Dury, he has no sympathy for his characters ... Albarn's attitude is totally uncharitable, a kind of snide contempt."
  • (8) Arthur Herzog, one of Holiday's regular songwriters, claimed that arranger Danny Mendelsohn rewrote Meeropol's tune, which he uncharitably dubbed "something or other alleged to be music", which might have made the difference to Holiday.
  • (9) It might be uncharitable to suggest that Hamill's readiness to participate in the new series is because his career has not exactly flourished after Star Wars, being best known since for voicing superhero cartoons for TV – in contrast to Ford, who went on to star in films including the Indiana Jones series, Blade Runner and Witness, and is now rated as the fourth highest grossing actor of all time.
  • (10) Without wishing to be uncharitable, I'm getting a bit sick of Oscar Pistorius's sick bucket .
  • (11) Germany have been great against the teams who've let them play, and far less impressive against the two teams who've done the uncharitable thing of trying to stop them from doing so.
  • (12) A tiny, awfully uncharitable part of me wonders momentarily if that might be an instance of the same expedient moral revisionism which saw the 49-year-old Farage recently declare tax avoiders "the common enemy", only for it to be revealed that he'd once been at it himself with an Isle of Man trust.

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