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美:[ʌnˈdʒɛnərəs]
英:['ʌn'dʒenərəs]
美:[ʌnˈdʒɛnərəs]
un·gen·er·ous
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Adjective
1. lacking in magnanimity;
"it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.
"a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive"
2. not generous;
"she practices economy without being stingy"
"an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
3. selfishly unwilling to share with others
4. lacking in largess;
"an ungenerous response to an appeal for funds"
The first known use of ungenerous was in 1641
1 It seems ungenerous, but this is an act better suited to YouTube than the Albert Hall.
2 It would be ungenerous to hold Mr. Luisi to account for that, only six years into his term.
3 Let's not be ungenerous: the government's great over-arching green strategy is, on the face of, it a remarkable achievement.
4 Rod Dreher, an American commentator who converted to Orthodoxy but shares ideological ground with Catholic traditionalists, called the homily “mean-spirited and ungenerous.”
5 “No, don’t be hurt,” she pleaded quite pathetically; “let only me be hurt, if I have been ungenerous.”
6 Unable to square this context with my “original” admiration, I found myself rereading Dubus’s stories with a sinking and ungenerous heart.
7 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.
8 This man, so lonely in his hour of triumph, so ungenerous in some of his motivations, had navigated our nation through one of the most anguishing periods in its history.
这位成功时如此孤寂,在有些事情上动机如此偏狭的人,领导我们国家度过了历史上最令人痛苦的时刻之一。
9 He’s talking with his son, Denardo, about the imperative of original artistic expression and how it survives both the barbs of ungenerous critics and the bile of envious peers.
10 She felt bad and ungenerous for bringing it up at all.
11 It’s comical but never cynical, unsparing but never ungenerous, as well as therapeutic in the sense of making us feel better about the miserably insecure children we may once have been.
12 “The snotgreen sea” was how the “Ulysses” character Buck Mulligan described it, but as I stood where he made his pronouncement, I couldn’t help but think that description was ungenerous.
13 it is ungenerous for someone of his ample means not to provide more for the care of his aging parents
14 And, even if they did, it would seem ungenerous to offer a lacking bunch to people who are grieving.
15 This was distinctly ungenerous, as Schrödinger’s hypothesis was, in fact, quite precise and did not simply involve coining a new name.
16 Only a hardened cynic, a truly crabbed and ungenerous spirit, would be able to resist this tale.
17 The Italian sizing also seems ungenerous, but I consoled myself with the thought that $1,190 is really too much to pay for something with an elastic waistband.
18 If my understanding of Shortz’s motives for hiring me was a paranoid misread—ungenerous to both of us—my premonitions about the demographics and ethos of puzzle-making were eventually confirmed.
19 In this book, Atlas admits that he was “ungenerous” and “had outbursts of spite.”
20 A bad apology is cagey and ungenerous, an attempt to avoid taking full responsibility.
1 气量小的
2 卑鄙
mean little base dirty foul reptile filthy unethical lousy shabby wretched unworthy creeping shoddy abject sordid reptilian soulless scurvy depraved dishonorable ignoble lowlife sneaking scurrilous scabby low-down low-life wormy rascally hangdog caddish verminous doggish scoundrelly low-minded low basely impudently foully vilely filthily pettily villainy turpitude lowliness baseness vileness abjection scurrility grubbiness sordor deprave
3 很少
5 吝啬
mean small near cheap tight careful narrow skinny miserable scotch shabby stingy skimpy grasping scanty scrimp nippy miserly screwy grudging illiberal parsimonious churlish penny-pinching chary beggarly mingy tightfisted cheeseparing pinchpenny closefisted hardfisted ironfisted chinchy nearly meanly closeness parsimony hunks niggard pinch skimp squeeze the eagle niggardly mean-minded stingily parsimoniously ungenerously meanness stinginess miserliness niggardliness close hungry sordid covetous penurious tight-fisted unhandsome costive close-fisted cheese-paring chintzy narrow-fisted little managing scant paltry scaly gripple skimpingly charily pikerism nearness smallness penury littleness illiberality chariness iron fisted
7 不公正
partial unfair unjust wrongful one-sided inequitable unrighteous unsportsmanlike unsporting wrong injustice iniquity inequity with the gloves off not cricket over the fence low dirty unreasonable monstrous oppressive unequal skewed unjustified cutthroat cheapjack inequality below the belt
8 小气
mean little small Scottish shabby stingy sordid small-minded niggardly picayune tightfisted cheeseparing closefisted hardfisted chinchy begrudgingly pettily unhandsomely meanness smallness stinginess penny-pinch scotch skimpy parsimonious mingy parsimony penury screw close narrow miserly penny-pinching chintzy pimping niggard unhandsome close-fisted skimpingly meanly stingily pikerism
10 卑劣的
snoep mean little low poor chicken yellow nasty foul villain miserable petty reptile filthy vile lousy wretched despicable cowardly shoddy paltry scaly villainous reptilian soulless scurvy dastardly snide dishonorable contemptible squalid ratty degrading ornery scummy scabby low-down wormy scabbed poltroon hilding baseborn meanspirited cowardy currish low-minded
12 不大方的
13 吝啬的
mean small near cheap tight careful narrow skinny miserable scotch shabby stingy skimpy grasping scanty scrimp nippy miserly screwy grudging illiberal parsimonious churlish penny-pinching chary beggarly mingy tightfisted cheeseparing pinchpenny closefisted hardfisted ironfisted chinchy chintzy hungry close penurious niggardly tight-fisted ungiving cheese-paring close-fisted mean-minded sordid covetous unhandsome costive narrow-fisted little managing scant paltry scaly niggard gripple iron fisted
14 不充足的
15 卑鄙的
mean little base dirty foul reptile filthy unethical lousy shabby wretched unworthy creeping shoddy abject sordid reptilian soulless scurvy depraved dishonorable ignoble lowlife sneaking scurrilous scabby low-down low-life wormy rascally hangdog caddish verminous doggish scoundrelly low-minded
16 卑劣
snoep mean little low poor chicken yellow nasty foul villain miserable petty reptile filthy vile lousy wretched despicable cowardly shoddy paltry scaly villainous reptilian soulless scurvy dastardly snide dishonorable contemptible squalid ratty degrading ornery scummy scabby low-down wormy scabbed poltroon hilding baseborn meanspirited cowardy currish low-minded rascally meanly villainy meanness turpitude
17 小气的
mean little small Scottish shabby stingy sordid small-minded niggardly picayune tightfisted cheeseparing closefisted hardfisted chinchy scotch skimpy parsimonious mingy close narrow miserly penny-pinching chintzy pimping niggard unhandsome close-fisted
18 不公正的
partial unfair unjust wrongful one-sided inequitable unrighteous unsportsmanlike unsporting over the fence low dirty unreasonable monstrous oppressive unequal skewed unjustified cutthroat cheapjack not cricket below the belt
19 不宽厚
20 不大的