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

The condition of the house gives evidence of an unwillingness to sink money in an unlucrative enterprise.

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

It was simply an unlucrative exchange of so much broken iron between two sensible and prudent nations.

From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.

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)