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

So Kennard stayed on, unable to tear himself away from her, and obtained an unlucrative post as accountant in a small wine shop over by Montmartre.

From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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

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)