How to Use ungenerous in a Sentence

ungenerous

adjective

• The ’12s were far better, and the ’14s appear to be very tight, ungenerous.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• My mother was raised in an ungenerous home, and from her youngest years was looking for any safe space available to her.
  — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• Being a greedy and ungenerous person will hurt not just your soul, but your music, too.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, The Cut, 23 June 2017
• The sauce is a little too pasty, and the toppings situation is ungenerous.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
• Yet despite these virtues, the book that contains them is sour, ungenerous, and ignorant.
  — Graham Hillard, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• Now she feels yoked not just to a violent man and a pompous son but to her own prickly, ungenerous personality.
  — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
• The breathtaking high point of The Green Knight is a montage in which decades fly by, and Gawain ages into a stern and ungenerous leader of men and an indifferent user of women.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 27 July 2021
• That word was once used to describe a private shortcoming such as a person who was narrow-minded or ungenerous.
  — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• The dentist himself is an unlovely specimen — racist, ungenerous and vain, a man whose two ruling goals are to become a Freemason and to continue his blood line.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• The dentist himself is an unlovely specimen — racist, ungenerous and vain — a man whose two ruling goals are to become a Freemason and to continue his blood line.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
• Some of the world's poorest people without enough food are in northern Kenya, where animal carcasses are slowly stripped to the bone beneath an ungenerous sky.
  — Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
• Doubtless encouraged by the board’s friendly rejection, the private equity group raised its offer to a still ungenerous $52.50 a share in May.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• The result is an ungenerous viewership who are not seeing movies fairly.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 13 Oct. 2017
• Genshin Impact presents its odds right inside the Wish system, but that hasn’t deterred players from calling them unfair or ungenerous.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 2 Nov. 2020
• In the consistently ungenerous swamps of social media, theories about the bowling-ball test centered on a vague idea that there had once been an ad that involved dropping a bowling ball on a car.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
• Mank adds another layer with its own ungenerous portrait of Welles, and sympathetic one of Mankiewicz.
  — Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
• This was distinctly ungenerous, as Schrödinger’s hypothesis was, in fact, quite precise and did not simply involve coining a new name.
  — Matthew Cobb, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
• Jones’s affection for her onscreen avatar is unsurprising, given that Jones endured her share of ungenerous treatment during her run on the show.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
• Now, its reporting faults News Showcase as unfair and ungenerous.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• To be sure — three of my favorite weasel words — being able to sit on an inherited IRA for up to 10 years without being required to take annual distributions isn’t ungenerous.
  — Allan Sloan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2020
• Listless service, uninspired environment. 'Ungenerous' is the best way to describe it.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016
• But this may be an ungenerous assumption about human nature, according to an expansive new study that found people are more likely to try and return lost wallets with money than those without.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 21 June 2019
• And yet, Genshin Impact’s social team keeps running out-of-game promotions that are simply ludicrous in terms of the scale of prizes, and the game keeps exhausting players by appearing decidedly ungenerous.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• That their argument was precarious as well as ungenerous may easily be seen.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
• This might sound obvious, but its logic lately has played out for me during quarantine, when anxious projections and ungenerous readings haunted too many interactions.
  — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 11 June 2021
• Generous people could become ungenerous, and brave people could become frightened.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 26 July 2017
• Robinson would like us to reject the notion that Americans are naturally ungenerous capitalists.
  — Sarah Begley, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
• Waters’ memory of Household Objects was equally ungenerous.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2020
• Of those two competing representations, which one shows the real United Kingdom–the intelligent, forward-looking, inclusive one articulated in that Olympic ceremony, or the insular, ungenerous one expressed on that poster?
  — Jonathan Coe, Time, 6 June 2019
• Given the density of visual information, this seems an especially ungenerous assessment.
  — Andrew Martin, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024