Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not chary; not frugal; not careful; heedless.
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Examples
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Perhaps it was human and correctly natural that Knight never once thought whether he did not owe her a little sacrifice for her unchary devotion in saving his life.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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Perhaps it was human and correctly natural that Knight never once thought whether he did not owe her a little sacrifice for her unchary devotion in saving his life.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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Otherwise, I agree with you that a people unchary of its honor at any sacrifice is fit only to be enslaved by some nobler race.
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