lucrative
adjective
profitable; moneymaking; remunerative.
unlucrative
-
a word derived from
lucrative.
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
Who would practise a vocation So unlucrative and painful, To deserve a designation Cruelly disdainful?
From The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) by Harry Graham
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 Henry Edward Krehbiel
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 Henry W. Nevinson
