ungenerous如何读

英:['ʌn'dʒenərəs]

美:[ʌnˈdʒɛnərəs]

ungenerous是什么意思

  • adj.心胸狭窄的;吝啬的

ungenerous自然拼读

un·gen·er·ous

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ungenerous英英释义

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"

ungenerous词源英文解释

The first known use of ungenerous was in 1641

ungenerous 例句

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.

ungenerous 同义词

4 卑微的

vile sneaky abject

6 很少的

few niggardly

12 不大方的

unhandsome mean

14 不充足的

insufficient

19 不宽厚

ungenerously

20 不大的

little

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