Ungenerous
[ʌn'dʒenәrәs]
Definition
(adj.) lacking in magnanimity; 'it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note'- Times Litt. Sup.; 'a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive' .
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Definition
(a.) Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Illiberal, unkind, base, mean, sordid, selfish, ignoble, dishonorable.
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Definition
adj. not generous or liberal.—adv. Ungen′erously.
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Examples
- Is it ungenerous or dishonourable to be devoted to you; fascinated by you? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It would be ungenerous to affect not to know that your self-denial is to be referred to your consideration for her father. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted _there_. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Ungenerous and dishonourable. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Some resentment did arise at a perseverance so selfish and ungenerous. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- This is surely most unfair and ungenerous upon your part. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is too one-sided--too ungenerous. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No, don't be hurt, she pleaded quite pathetically; let only me be hurt, if I have been ungenerous. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The auctioneer was not an ungenerous man, and liked to give others their due, feeling that he could afford it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ah, you didn't mean me to know it; I call that ungenerous reticence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At any rate it would be most ungenerous. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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