unlucrative

Example Sentences

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Few landlords attended the committee meeting, but those who did said a cap on rent increases would push smaller rental property owners out of town by making the business unlucrative.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2023

Last December she sued LaFace Records, to be freed from a contract she considers unlucrative.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have been enjoying a very pleasant and not unlucrative time for the last six weeks, with the—er—natural result that there are several ladies and gentlemen in London whom I would just as soon avoid.

From An Amiable Charlatan by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Who would practise a vocation So unlucrative and painful, To deserve a designation Cruelly disdainful?

From The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) by Graham, Harry

For Martial's acquaintance was poor and is exhorted to abandon poetry as unlucrative, whereas Valerius Flaccus had some social standing and, not improbably, some wealth.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth