unremunerative

Example Sentences

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They justify their unremunerative paths by an idea of art as ultimate redemption.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2022

The Senate bill passed 35 to 1, but only after lawmakers spent more than an hour railing against what they called an unnecessary and dangerous intrusion on their difficult and unremunerative legislative jobs.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2015

The virtues which the aristocracy had previously associated only with unremunerative occupations came to seem available in certain kinds of paid employment too, one might turn one's hobby into a job.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2011

Hopkins' trustees knew that such useful but unremunerative achievements as the American Geographical Society's were monuments to its director's ability to wangle fat sums from rich citizens as well as to his scientific zeal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, the evanescencies that came and went and chequered his career were not quite unremunerative, though they were hardly lucrative.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend