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[ UK /ʌnd‍ʒˈɛnəɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.)
    an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds
    she practices economy without being stingy
  2. lacking in magnanimity
    it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note
    a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive

How To Use ungenerous In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ‘I am amazed and deeply disappointed that the Barbican can be so ungenerous,’ Hall says.
  • 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.
  • But both of us know that he's just said something spectacularly ungenerous about the victims' families.
  • And at 200 pages, this selection is a little on the ungenerous side.
  • Immediately after we were introduced I began screaming at her, scolding her for unprofessional behavior, indifference, ungenerousness.
  • `Incidentally, my superiors, although they've finished with you, have no desire to be ungenerous. DARE CALL IT TREASON
  • 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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