ungenerous
adjective
stingy; miserly.
ungenerously
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a word derived from
ungenerous.
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
“This is not the work of scientists,” he added, scathingly and ungenerously.
From Forbes ● Feb. 25, 2013
A few will phone for help; others will panic and require medical assistance themselves; and many, alas, will simply be annoyed that their dinner was interrupted and will tip their waiters ungenerously as a result.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
