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

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

The great college set up by St. Louis' confessor at Paris for the endowment of scholars, desirous of studying the unlucrative but vital subject of theology, was soon imitated by the chancellor of Henry III.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William

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