ungenerous

ˌən-ˈjen-rəs

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ungenerous Maybe that’s ungenerous, but my patience is running short with Adair. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2025 While the initial batch of second-quarter earnings reports has been met by generally ungenerous market responses, the numbers themselves are solid. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 July 2024 This very ungenerous person was complaining about the unkempt state of their neighbor’s home and yard. Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2024 But neither can anyone seriously accuse the United States of being ungenerous with its citizens’ lives and treasure or of having no ideals. Joshua Landis, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2016 See All Example Sentences for ungenerous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungenerous
Adjective
  • These co-workers are not heroes for coming in to work with their germs, but selfish and inconsiderate.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Having to carry the weight of someone else’s selfish needs makes everything harder.
    Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But Eliasen is careful not to let scope creep derail initial implementations.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • An uncharitable strike zone led to a pair of walks, and Yoan Moncada punched a single to double the early advantage against him.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Many of them uncharitable and nasty, some of them vulgar and unprintable.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • Suddenly, Mickey is offering him a chance to play the main stage, which sets Sam’s greedier instincts into overdrive.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But his greedy schemes and her desire to keep her dog immortal led to the downfall of her once-thriving business and turned her into a woman on the run.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • McKim, Mead & White quickly became the place for aspiring young architects, who avidly sought jobs there despite miserly salaries.
    Henry Wiencek July 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • The miserly email account offerings are particularly limiting for larger ventures, and unusual for the category which typically offers unlimited email.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Chelsea are famously parsimonious in the transfer market, after all.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Wimpy was a mild-mannered, soft-spoken, lazy, parsimonious, and utterly gluttonous hamburger-wolfing straight man to Popeye.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
Adjective
  • But both are gone because neither could make magic of Sherman’s low-spending model that still includes the most penurious payroll in MLB in 2025.
    Greg Cote July 16, Miami Herald, 16 July 2025
  • Even so, the general picture of a mother’s absence and a daughter’s understandable resentment at having had to pick up the maternal slack in penurious conditions comes through loud and clear.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • That’s good news for the many wage workers who have seen their purchasing power shrink as prices get higher, and companies get stingier with pay.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Jordan Gillissie and Tatum Morehouse lead a stingy defense.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Ungenerous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungenerous. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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