give
verb (used with object)
to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow.
ungiving
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a word derived from
give.
Example Sentences
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"Your energy was pure selfless love. A giver in this ungiving life. Your loving nature carried thru decades."
From Fox News ● Oct. 12, 2021
The iPhone’s cold, ungiving lens cuts out all emotion and presents the poisoning as an ugly fact, presented objectively and without question.
From The Verge ● Sep. 22, 2017
Then there is Liam who throws the odd sop to intimacy to Scott in an otherwise ungiving dynamic.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2017
Yet Tom remains a one-note character, curt and ungiving.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2011
Most of them only see the ungiving soil from which a man must wrestle his subsistence and the barriers that shut him out from the world.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
