How To Use Ungenerous In A Sentence
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Although I know not, I dare say it is owing to some petty petulance, to some half-ungenerous advantage taken of his obligingness and assiduity.
Clarissa Harlowe
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My struggle to gain my livelihood was for some time rendered considerably more difficult by this kind of ungenerous and underhand antagonism.
Autobiographical Sketches
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History's verdict is not clearcut but it has not been ungenerous.
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It's a cold and ungenerous gaze on reality, with an enormous analytical backbone.
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It was ungenerous, it was destructive, it was simple-minded, it was vicious, it was rubbish.
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How was it possible that anyone could be so selfish, so ungenerous, so... mean?
RESCUING ROSE
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A proud, dark, ambitious man; a caballer against the state; infamous for his avarice and severity; a bad son, a bad brother, unkind and ungenerous to all his relatives -- Isabel, I would die rather than have him.
The Black Dwarf
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But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's character, nay, that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find in all the volumes which he has left us a single taunt which can be called ungenerous or unkind.
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
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As long as partners interpret one another in strongly negative terms, thereby acting ungenerously, there is little hope for effective communication.
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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.
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Whatever bad qualities could be attributed to Hugh, being ungenerous was not one of them.
DANSVILLE
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– a person of his high nice notions of character – what a distance it would put even between his friendship and her – but that thought was banished instantly, with one glance at Mr. Thorn's imputation of ungenerousness.
Queechy
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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.
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The dominant UK political discourse is both xenophobic and ungenerous.
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The authoritarians wanted harsh penalties and as ungenerous a benefit system as possible.
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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!
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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.
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In spleenful moments, it seems to me that the most depraved of city-dwellers has flashes of enthusiasm and self-abnegation never experienced by this shifty, retrogressive and ungenerous brood, which lives like the beasts of the field and has learnt all too much of their logic.
Old Calabria
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The reasons for the government's ungenerous efforts are different.
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The company had a good pension scheme for the salaried employees and an ungenerous scheme for the hourly paid.
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This was a typically ungenerous response.
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He is unstinting but never ungenerous in his depiction of an Italy materially and emotionally ravaged by the second world war.
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This struck us as quite extraordinarily ungenerous.
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He is stiff, self-conscious, grudging, coy and ungenerous.
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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.
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Rather ungenerous of him considering it's made him a wealthy man.
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It was extremely ungenerous, after all he had done for me, not to mention childish.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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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.
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The scholar will continue to reside within a sealed compartment of ungenerous endeavor.
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an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds
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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.
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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?
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One first year called the system ‘cheeky’ as nobody would want to openly declare themselves as ungenerous.
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A base , ungenerous wretch who under the mask of friendship has undone me.
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Rachel - John James & Ben stating Ben is "ungenerous
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Merely to characterize as ungenerous this aspersion upon the courage of such men as then served under Hooker, savors of error on the side of leniency.
The Campaign of Chancellorsville
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The sagaman consults poetical justice very well at first, and prepares us for an unfortunate end by depicting Grettir as, though valiant and in a way not ungenerous, yet not merely an incorrigible scapegrace, but somewhat unamiable and even distinctly ferocious.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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Sir Ch. Not satisfied with your own acknowledgment; as I know that young ladies are too ant to make secrets of a passion that is not in itself illaudable [I know not why, when proper persons make enqui-ries, and for motives not ungenerous]; I asked your elder sister, who scrupled not to own hers, whether there were any one man, whom you preferred to an-other?
Sir Charles Grandison
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He could not quite conceal from himself all these hopes that had such an uncomfortable aspect of ungenerousness.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel
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This was a typically ungenerous response.
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A proud, dark, ambitious man; a caballer against the state; infamous for his avarice and severity; a bad son, a bad brother, unkind and ungenerous to all his relatives — Isabel, I would die rather than have him.”
The Black Dwarf
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I-- a person of his high nice notions of character -- what a distance it would put even between his friendship and her, -- but that thought was banished instantly, with one glance at Mr. Thorn's imputation of ungenerousness.
Queechy
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The company had a good pension scheme for the salaried employees and an ungenerous scheme for the hourly paid.
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But the placid prettiness of Marjorie appealed to him far more than the cold, disdainful beauty of the young woman he had called ungenerous, and who had in her turn called him a cad.
The Imaginary Marriage
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But the ungenerousness of my conduct towards my master -- one who never treated me with aught but kindness and confidence -- the ungracious return I have made for all his bounties is a source of regret which the judgment of the law cannot repair.
Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and a Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest.
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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.
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`Incidentally, my superiors, although they've finished with you, have no desire to be ungenerous.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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Immediately after we were introduced I began screaming at her, scolding her for unprofessional behavior, indifference, ungenerousness.
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And at 200 pages, this selection is a little on the ungenerous side.
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But both of us know that he's just said something spectacularly ungenerous about the victims' families.
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But the ungenerousness of my conduct towards my master -- one who never treated me with aught but kindness and confidence -- the ungracious return I have made for all his bounties is a source of regret which the judgment of the law cannot repair.
Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and a Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest.
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‘I am amazed and deeply disappointed that the Barbican can be so ungenerous,’ Hall says.
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Mary, oppressed by the idea of ungenerous concealment, resolved at length to unveil her heart to a mother so tender of her happiness.
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
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People are homeless and hungry, the landscape often ungenerous, but in many of these poems, kindness is the miracle.
Carol Muske-Dukes: Scattershot Poetry Reviews -- Three Books
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What is so maddeningly dismaying is the way the cynical media’s pose of hagiographic respect for the Pope amounts to an ungenerousness to the religion and to the world he leaves behind.
The Television News Brain | PopPolitics.com
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But Dick only warmed his coat tails at the fire as he said, with a very ungenerous reminiscence of his father's manner: "You are going back to an excellent establishment, where you will enjoy all the comforts of home -- I can specially recommend the stickjaw; look out for it on
Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
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An ungenerous thought about Mr Shapiro's siblings occurs to me.
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But with the party members being so mean and ungenerous, well… they'll have to let loose the dogs.
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Thus it is that a great deal of ungenerousness enters into the arguments of the pious Christians when they pass their imperfect opinion.
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He spurned everything mean and ungenerous, -- was genial in disposition, indeed brimming with mirthfulness, and, in every situation, attracted to himself numerous friends.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick
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I shall have to hand Letty Dale to him at last!" he thought, yielding in bitter generosity to the conditions imposed on him by the ungenerousness of another.
The Egoist
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it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note
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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.
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Not that they were a hard-worked or hard-working population: they took life very easy, seeing that by no possible exertion could they materially better themselves; and even when they hunted a neighbour's cow out of their wheat, they would execute the eviction with a lazy indolence and sluggishness that took away from the act all semblance of ungenerousness.
Lord Kilgobbin
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I also had a suspicious, ungenerous feeling about the reluctance of the white teachers to make use of more realistic books.
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He was masterful and imaginative, but his masterfulness tended to ungenerousness and his imagination to vagary and mischievous exaggeration.
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I cannot help observing the great difference between an illdresst and a well-dresst mob, and I must indeed be unfeeling and ungenerous not to acknowledge it.
Letter 199
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The check-out time of 11 am is a little ungenerous.
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He is stiff, self-conscious, grudging, coy and ungenerous.
