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ungenerously

/uhn-jen-er-uhs/US // ʌnˈdʒɛn ər əs //UK // (ʌnˈdʒɛnərəs, -ˈdʒɛnrəs) //

不慷慨地,不慷慨的,不慷慨,不宽松地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : stingy; miserly: an ungenerous portion; an ungenerous employer.
    • : uncharitable; petty: an ungenerous critic; an ungenerous impulse.

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Examples

  • That’s an ungenerous assessment of America’s response to surges in migrants seeking the promise that, in other contexts, the United States celebrates.

  • I am referring here to establishment Republicans, which for 150 years have consistently been the party of the rich and ungenerous.

  • Dickens showed the land to be “a troubled republic: ambitious, cruel, ungenerous, brutal, and divided.”

  • It's an ungenerous view, and one that Under the Sun goes a long way to undermine.

  • To be wealthy, married, unfaithful, and ungenerous is to insult a woman's basic intelligence, as well as her pride.

  • Some of my relatives felt I was ungenerous, and some simply wondered, Whose side are you on?

  • In an instant he was beside her; for though he had been irritable and ungenerous, he had at bottom a kind heart.

  • Excusably enough in so young a man, he allowed himself to be swayed by personal feeling, and his feeling was ungenerous.

  • Twists and curves were no longer permitted: everything had to be straightforward, logical, ungenerous, inexorable.

  • I am not preaching suspicion, or reserve, or anything ungenerous, but justice and truth.

  • He had been rather a hard taskmaster, though as a paymaster trustworthy; a ready-money man, just and ungenerous.