Example Sentences

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Predicting the weather over the next 72 hours, Krick favors what might generously be termed a historically informed approach and what might ungenerously be dubbed barmy pseudoscience.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

He remained active in civil liberties and civil rights, but it was only after he retired in 1992 that he became what one might ungenerously call a gadfly.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2022

The jury is still out on the meaning of those last two, with a number of commentators ungenerously attributing the intended message to be something like I can read and I love it.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 12, 2019

He makes the sort of grand, big-swinging statements that lose their punch when ungenerously dissected.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2016

Probably from her beauty date with Vivian, the boy thought ungenerously.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman