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词汇 ungenerous
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Definition of ungenerous in English:

ungenerous

adjectiveʌnˈdʒɛn(ə)rəsˌənˈdʒɛnərəs
  • Not generous; mean.

    吝啬的;不大方的

    he was not an ungenerous man
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Perhaps most important, the new carriers were not burdened with staffing levels that make those that existed in some of Britain's nationalised industries seem ungenerous.
    • But both of us know that he's just said something spectacularly ungenerous about the victims' families.
    • The reasons for the government's ungenerous efforts are different.
    • The check-out time of 11 am is a little ungenerous.
    • And at 200 pages, this selection is a little on the ungenerous side.
    • The authoritarians wanted harsh penalties and as ungenerous a benefit system as possible.
    • The city is Dundee, called at one point ‘the armpit of northern Britain’, which anyone who knows Dundee will agree is a not ungenerous description.
    • I feel I've been a little ungenerous to Johnson who bowled 20 overs for 55 and suffered badly from some over-imaginative field placings for which of course he himself may have asked.
    • ‘I am amazed and deeply disappointed that the Barbican can be so ungenerous,’ Hall says.
    • But Duffin strongly disputes this, saying that just because Scottish Life is for tax reasons barred from handing out large windfalls, it doesn't mean it is being ungenerous.
    • He is unstinting but never ungenerous in his depiction of an Italy materially and emotionally ravaged by the second world war.
    • One first year called the system ‘cheeky’ as nobody would want to openly declare themselves as ungenerous.
    • It isn't that the US is ungenerous; it's just that it isn't sharing the insight other countries have, and it's very important that we try to get them there.
    • An ungenerous thought about Mr Shapiro's siblings occurs to me.
    • He is stiff, self-conscious, grudging, coy and ungenerous.
    • They do not qualify for loans, but are paid a regular bursary that Mairi says is not ungenerous and has become even more valuable since she left college.
    • It would be ungenerous to suggest the 42-year-old needed a hit film to restart a flagging career, but Carlyle has spent the past couple of years pursuing projects outside mainstream cinema.
    • The dominant UK political discourse is both xenophobic and ungenerous.
    • History's verdict is not clearcut but it has not been ungenerous.
    • Rather ungenerous of him considering it's made him a wealthy man.
    Synonyms
    uncharitable, unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, mean, mean-spirited, cruel, vicious, spiteful, malicious, malevolent, harsh, callous, pitiless, ruthless, unsympathetic, unfeeling, compassionless, uncaring, snide, shabby, hurtful, wounding, upsetting, ill-natured, hard-hearted, heartless, cold-hearted, merciless, brutal, savage, inhuman

Derivatives

  • ungenerously

  • adverbʌnˈdʒən(ə)rəsliˌənˈdʒɛn(ə)rəsli
    • As long as partners interpret one another in strongly negative terms, thereby acting ungenerously, there is little hope for effective communication.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The past moments were so overwhelming, I look at people through the glass walls of the South Bank and ungenerously, even stupidly, wonder: what are you doing there?
      • Maybe it's because they're not landing on our shores and threatening our way of life - which is how many Europeans, ungenerously, tend to see things.
      • I was told it was a tradition to share your first wages with other members of one's family - something I ungenerously chose to ignore!
      • To frame the matter ungenerously but with real precision, the question came down to whether you fight back against the terrorists by striking back at the terrorists or at someone else.
  • ungenerousness

  • noun
    • Immediately after we were introduced I began screaming at her, scolding her for unprofessional behavior, indifference, ungenerousness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Based on this account, Waldman's jealousy and ungenerousness have apparently caused her to project her worst feelings and impulses onto her mother-in-law with little foundation.
      • Maybe it is the ‘of course’ that really rankles here - in the way that it punctuates the ungenerousness in what Mr. Norman so confidently tosses off.
      • He was masterful and imaginative, but his masterfulness tended to ungenerousness and his imagination to vagary and mischievous exaggeration.
      • Thus it is that a great deal of ungenerousness enters into the arguments of the pious Christians when they pass their imperfect opinion.

Definition of ungenerous in US English:

ungenerous

adjectiveˌənˈjenərəsˌənˈdʒɛnərəs
  • Not generous; selfish.

    吝啬的;不大方的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The city is Dundee, called at one point ‘the armpit of northern Britain’, which anyone who knows Dundee will agree is a not ungenerous description.
    • But both of us know that he's just said something spectacularly ungenerous about the victims' families.
    • He is unstinting but never ungenerous in his depiction of an Italy materially and emotionally ravaged by the second world war.
    • The dominant UK political discourse is both xenophobic and ungenerous.
    • The authoritarians wanted harsh penalties and as ungenerous a benefit system as possible.
    • The reasons for the government's ungenerous efforts are different.
    • Rather ungenerous of him considering it's made him a wealthy man.
    • An ungenerous thought about Mr Shapiro's siblings occurs to me.
    • The check-out time of 11 am is a little ungenerous.
    • It isn't that the US is ungenerous; it's just that it isn't sharing the insight other countries have, and it's very important that we try to get them there.
    • And at 200 pages, this selection is a little on the ungenerous side.
    • History's verdict is not clearcut but it has not been ungenerous.
    • He is stiff, self-conscious, grudging, coy and ungenerous.
    • Perhaps most important, the new carriers were not burdened with staffing levels that make those that existed in some of Britain's nationalised industries seem ungenerous.
    • ‘I am amazed and deeply disappointed that the Barbican can be so ungenerous,’ Hall says.
    • But Duffin strongly disputes this, saying that just because Scottish Life is for tax reasons barred from handing out large windfalls, it doesn't mean it is being ungenerous.
    • I feel I've been a little ungenerous to Johnson who bowled 20 overs for 55 and suffered badly from some over-imaginative field placings for which of course he himself may have asked.
    • They do not qualify for loans, but are paid a regular bursary that Mairi says is not ungenerous and has become even more valuable since she left college.
    • One first year called the system ‘cheeky’ as nobody would want to openly declare themselves as ungenerous.
    • It would be ungenerous to suggest the 42-year-old needed a hit film to restart a flagging career, but Carlyle has spent the past couple of years pursuing projects outside mainstream cinema.
    Synonyms
    uncharitable, unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, mean, mean-spirited, cruel, vicious, spiteful, malicious, malevolent, harsh, callous, pitiless, ruthless, unsympathetic, unfeeling, compassionless, uncaring, snide, shabby, hurtful, wounding, upsetting, ill-natured, hard-hearted, heartless, cold-hearted, merciless, brutal, savage, inhuman
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