How to Use ungenerous in a Sentence

ungenerous

adjective
  • No one wants to disappoint their child or be seen as ungenerous.
    — Mandy Len Catron, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Being a greedy and ungenerous person will hurt not just your soul, but your music, too.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, The Cut, 23 June 2017
  • 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
  • Maybe that’s ungenerous, but my patience is running short with Adair.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Yet despite these virtues, the book that contains them is sour, ungenerous, and ignorant.
    — Graham Hillard, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
  • This very ungenerous person was complaining about the unkempt state of their neighbor’s home and yard.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2024
  • The sauce is a little too pasty, and the toppings situation is ungenerous.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The ’12s were far better, and the ’14s appear to be very tight, ungenerous.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The result is an ungenerous viewership who are not seeing movies fairly.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • That their argument was precarious as well as ungenerous may easily be seen.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
  • That ungenerous attitude toward Susie’s world hijacks the mood as the film goes full-tilt media circus lampoon.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • But, even though there was nothing the slightest bit ungracious or ungenerous about her performance, it was felt more like the audience being asked to come to her.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Now, its reporting faults News Showcase as unfair and ungenerous.
    — Zenger News, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Generous people could become ungenerous, and brave people could become frightened.
    — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 26 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At least with Derrick, the shallowness seems intentional, if ungenerous.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025
  • Perhaps most perplexing about Smash, though, is its weirdly cynical, ungenerous take on the Bombshell herself.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • While the initial batch of second-quarter earnings reports has been met by generally ungenerous market responses, the numbers themselves are solid.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 July 2024
  • 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
  • But neither can anyone seriously accuse the United States of being ungenerous with its citizens’ lives and treasure or of having no ideals.
    — Joshua Landis, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2016
  • Robinson would like us to reject the notion that Americans are naturally ungenerous capitalists.
    — Sarah Begley, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • These were the ungenerous thoughts running through my head until the final 20 or so minutes, when the movie trains its focus on Glinda and Elphaba reuniting and departing one last time.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Unkindness and people being ungenerous.
    — Maria Bamford, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025

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