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ungenerous
[ uhn-jen-er-uhs ]
adjective
- stingy; miserly:
an ungenerous portion; an ungenerous employer.
- uncharitable; petty:
an ungenerous critic; an ungenerous impulse.
ungenerous
/ ʌnˈdʒɛnərəs; -ˈdʒɛnrəs /
adjective
- not willing and liberal in giving away one's money, time, etc
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Other Words From
- un·gen·er·os·i·ty [uhn-jen-, uh, -, ros, -i-tee], noun
- un·gener·ous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ungenerous1
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Example Sentences
That’s an ungenerous assessment of America’s response to surges in migrants seeking the promise that, in other contexts, the United States celebrates.
I am referring here to establishment Republicans, which for 150 years have consistently been the party of the rich and ungenerous.
Dickens showed the land to be “a troubled republic: ambitious, cruel, ungenerous, brutal, and divided.”
It's an ungenerous view, and one that Under the Sun goes a long way to undermine.
To be wealthy, married, unfaithful, and ungenerous is to insult a woman's basic intelligence, as well as her pride.
Some of my relatives felt I was ungenerous, and some simply wondered, Whose side are you on?
In an instant he was beside her; for though he had been irritable and ungenerous, he had at bottom a kind heart.
Excusably enough in so young a man, he allowed himself to be swayed by personal feeling, and his feeling was ungenerous.
Twists and curves were no longer permitted: everything had to be straightforward, logical, ungenerous, inexorable.
I am not preaching suspicion, or reserve, or anything ungenerous, but justice and truth.
He had been rather a hard taskmaster, though as a paymaster trustworthy; a ready-money man, just and ungenerous.
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