| 词汇 | ungenerous |
| 释义 | ungenerous adjective uk /ʌnˈdʒen.ər.əs/ us /ʌnˈdʒen.ər.əs/ not willing to give money, help, kindness, praise, etc. to other people, or only willing to give a little: 吝啬的，不大方的，不慷慨的 an ungenerous welfare benefits system一个并不宽松的福利制度 It is not being ungenerous to the team to suggest that it, too, has many weak points.说这个团队也有很多弱点，并非是对团队求全责备。 Opposite generous The account pays an ungenerous 0.5% rate of interest. He clearly had a passion for music, so why was he such an ungenerous critic? There is a saying that a rich man who is ungenerous is like a tree without fruit. The article attempts to explain why we have in recent years become so ungenerous to migrants and refugees. Unkind, cruel & unfeeling acerbic acerbically acerbity acidly anti-cruelty cold-heartedly cruel cruelly cruelty cruelty to someone/something meanly meanness mental cruelty merciless mercilessly trenchancy trenchant trenchantly uncharitable uncharitably You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Mean with money Examples of ungenerousungenerous The discussion of freedom is no less full of gaps and problems, and the tendency to ungenerous caricature of opponents again proves irresistible. Having per formed a strenuous duty can lead one, in good conscience, to refuse a strenuous supererogator y act-if it is such-without even being ungenerous. The range is wide and the compass of a short review permits only an ungenerous selectivity. As an explanation even of the more imaginative paths that lead from the blank sheet to the occupied building, it is intellectually reductive, humanly ungenerous, and actually untruthful. Competitive elections and civil liberties, however, are the price he must pay to build legitimacy in the eyes of possibly violent opponents and potentially ungenerous foreign donors. Mental containment, rather than being construed here as the wise accumulation or safekeeping of mental treasure, is now depicted as ungenerous hoarding that carries a risk of social harm. That is a most ungenerous way of receiving the announcement of these reductions of salary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot help thinking that many of the attacks which have been made upon public assistance committees have been both unjust and ungenerous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say that in no ungenerous spirit, but because it is always much more difficult to receive than to give. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He might see my failure to do so as ungenerous or ungracious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, he was sorry that it felt that the £10 was ungenerous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is an ungenerous attitude that unless on every conceivable occasion the word "fair" is deployed people will act unfairly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are therefore not being ungenerous in that direction either. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be unfair and ungenerous if we did not give these joint boards a chance to prove their mettle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See what ungenerous gratuities you have given to these men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of ungenerous These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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