ungenerous
[uhn-jen-er-uh s]
- stingy; niggardly; miserly: an ungenerous portion; an ungenerous employer.
- uncharitable; petty: an ungenerous critic; an ungenerous impulse.
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Origin of ungenerous
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stingy, close, harsh, illiberal, mean, miserly, narrow, petty, selfish, shabby, small, sordid, uncharitable, grudgingExamples from the Web for ungenerous
Contemporary Examples
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?
Historical Examples
The shifty, ungenerous spirit of compromise awoke in Raymount.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
He is not so ungenerous a man as you think him: nor has he an unfeeling heart.
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
It cannot, cannot be, that I should have cause to apprehend him to be so ungenerous, so bad a man.
Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
Do you think me so ungenerous as to seek a place in your esteem without his consent?
The ContrastRoyall Tyler
Not a single unkind or ungenerous thought is to be found in any book of hers.
The Last VoyageLady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
ungenerous
- not willing and liberal in giving away one's money, time, etc
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