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UK
/ʌnspˈeəɹɪŋ/
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[ US /ənˈspɛɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ənˈspɛɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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very generous
a munificent gift
the critics were lavish in their praise
a munificent gift
called for unstinting aid to Britain
unsparing generosity
prodigal praise
his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent
distributed gifts with a lavish hand
his unstinted devotion -
not forbearing; ruthless
an unsparing critic
How To Use unsparing In A Sentence
- But Victorian County Court Judge, Graeme Crossley, was unsparing, describing Hopper's behaviour as a gross breach of trust of the entire Wesley College community.
- Was it but quiet avengement against a jestress whose tongue had been unsparing enough, even to him, the day before? Under the Rose
- Unsparing in his criticism, he held politicians squarely responsible for converting research institutions into a cesspool of dirty politics and trade unionism.
- Three Days to Never is, pretty clearly, a thematic consort of Declare, its immediate predecessor in Powers' canon, but although the new tale shares that novel's immurement in the mortal coils of 20th-century history, it reads as a counterfactual to Powers' previous unsparing insistence that the past 100 years or so of human life on this planet have been lived in the heart of darkness of theological abomination. Clute Reviews THREE DAYS TO NEVER
- The documentary went through all the graphic details of the operation in unsparing detail.
- The book is unsparing in revealing the grimness and horror of war, of the sudden loss of friends, of living under appalling conditions, of ‘trying to do what I could with a tourniquet of webbing on a youngster who had lost a leg’.
- It is a matter of concern not only for parents, teachers and the Executive, but for everyone who values the civil society that generations of Scots created through their unsparing efforts.
- Recriminations will be many, various and, in some quarters, unsparing after flickering hopes of reaching the World Cup play-offs were extinguished by Belarus.
- Henry's unsparing precision was the one quality that found no equal in the Roma ranks.
- Mr. McLynn is as unsparing of the senior commanders in Burma as they were of each other: The "mentally unstable" Wingate is posthumously diagnosed with bipolar disorder; Chennault suffered from "monomania," was "essentially false" and "joined in the Chinese elite's corruption and peculation with avidity"; Chiang is described as having given his second wife a nasty venereal disease on their wedding night. Still Forgotten
