unlucrative
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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
For Martial's acquaintance was poor and is exhorted to abandon poetry as unlucrative, whereas Valerius Flaccus had some social standing and, not improbably, some wealth.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
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 Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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 E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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