ˌən-ˈjen-rəs
as in selfish
giving or sharing as little as possible
it is ungenerous for someone of his ample means not to provide more for the care of his aging parents
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Recent Examples of ungenerous
Maybe that’s ungenerous, but my patience is running short with Adair.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungenerous
Adjective
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So yes, be yourself, so long as that self is not selfish, impulsive, or obnoxious.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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To be a quarterback means being selfish and sometimes delusional.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Both coaches and players have been respectful of the other team all week, careful not to produce any bulletin board material.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
5 Sep. 2025
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Ben Lewis Doherty, playing a boy named Sam whose life is upended by Robbie, is the show’s greatest innocent, a softhearted moppet who warns deer to be careful when crossing the street.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Many of them uncharitable and nasty, some of them vulgar and unprintable.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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Fleming and Iwamasa, as well as greedy ketamine providing doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez have all previously entered guilty pleas in the Perry case.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
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Women are greedy, untrustworthy, weak and inferior, these influencers say.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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Chelsea are famously parsimonious in the transfer market, after all.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Though stingy, the Bengal Tigers have scored only 40 points in wins over Clemson (17-10) and Louisiana Tech (23-7).—
Tom Layberger,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Arizona opened the season with a dominant 40–6 win over Hawai'i, powered by a strong ground attack and a stingy defense.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Ungenerous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungenerous. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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