ungenerous

Example Sentences

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To that end, it is not ungenerous to not want to give the C.E.O. of your company a gift.

From New York Times

Oberholtzer’s Shane is so convincing as the manifestation of pitiably unschooled prejudice that you may have to stifle your own ungenerous impulse to see him punished.

From Washington Post

He remained active in civil liberties and civil rights, but it was only after he retired in 1992 that he became what one might ungenerously call a gadfly.

From New York Times

To presume a writer's spouse would be humiliated by a piece like Havrilesky's requires a whole other series of ungenerous assumptions about both people involved:

From Salon

My mother was raised in an ungenerous home, and from her youngest years was looking for any safe space available to her.

From New York Times