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Example sentences for "ungenerous"

Lexicographically close words:
ungainly; ungallant; ungarischen; ungathered; unge; ungenerously; ungenial; ungenteel; ungentle; ungentlemanlike
  1. The ungenerous and unjust arrest of this young man," says Dr.

  2. Chevreuse, in his trustful ardor, was constantly bruising himself on the rocks; his friend looked out for and steered clear of them, yet not with a selfish nor ungenerous caution.

  3. Mr. Stowell," I exclaimed, "I am not accustomed to have ungenerous reflections cast upon me.

  4. My enemies take an ungenerous advantage of me," he said, "they know the delicacy of my situation, and that motives of policy deprive me of the defence I might otherwise make against their insidious attacks.

  5. If we pursue our hero to his home, it should be in a home-spirit--a spirit of affection, not of impertinent intrusion or ungenerous cavil.

  6. There seemed something peculiarly ungenerous in the continued attacks after a series of defeats, in the insistence with which Masterman's name was dragged in, always accompanied by sneers.

  7. Artistic sympathies" is not ungenerous considering how Chesterton had written of George Moore in Heretics.

  8. Mr. FIELD objects to them; and if gentlemen really think they need more time, I think it ungenerous not to yield to their wishes.

  9. Ungenerous as South Carolina has been, I would receive her home again.

  10. Do not therefore disparage my plan for the employment of women in diplomacy by any ungenerous comparisons with the elderly ladies at present engaged in it.

  11. Something nigh to misanthropy creeps over me at the sight of pleasures in which I am no more to take a part, and I would not that a feeling thus ungenerous should be my travelling companion.

  12. The desperate struggle in which he had taken part had left no traces of ungenerous feeling or animosity behind, and the pride of conquest had never disturbed the equanimity of the negotiator.

  13. At Chelsea I was always supposed to be at home, and as my friends and acquaintances came so far out of their way on purpose to see me, it would have been unkind and ungenerous not to receive them.

  14. It is to be regretted that one who had brought that branch of science to such perfection should have been so ungenerous as to ignore the assistance he had received from the researches of Dr.

  15. And I had far better means of judging than father or you; but, of course, my suspicions were ungenerous and cynical.

  16. As it was, they involved either hypocrisy or ungenerous irony at the expense of his questioner.

  17. Throughout the war and afterwards Punch was a harsh and ungenerous critic of the policy of Sir Bartle Frere, whom he regarded as a prancing proconsul and nothing more.

  18. It seemed to him unmanly and ungenerous to lay any share or shadow of it on this young life, which owed all its peace and light to ignorance of the truth.

  19. Yours is the fault that she is now beside you; you were in haste and blind, and adventured a rash experiment; but it would be ungenerous in us both if we made her pay all the penalty of my indifference and your error.

  20. I mean," said the ungenerous woman, "your System will require no further sacrifices from either of them?

  21. Miss Riddle; that would be ungenerous and unmanly.

  22. You are no stranger in this part of the country, I presume" said he, with a view of bringing him out for his own covert and somewhat ungenerous purposes.

  23. We should never, if possible, suffer ourselves to be prematurely ungenerous in our estimate of strangers, especially when we know that this world is filled with the most absurd and ridiculous prejudices.

  24. But Fox added an ungenerous and malicious hint that the writer was at Rome, within the reach of Bonaparte.

  25. But the very conduct to which the press had compelled him was made a cause of ungenerous prejudices.

  26. Still, his disappointment must be far greater than ours, so it would be ungenerous to dwell further on the matter.

  27. The present state of things may safeguard you against the ungenerous employer, but it eliminates the milk of human kindness from our mutual transactions, and that is always a matter for regret.

  28. Dame Elspeth had no difficulty in possessing herself of the volume, although her heart all the while accused her of an ungenerous and an inhospitable part towards her friend and inmate.

  29. The unfortunate knight spoke at intervals, when the syncope would permit him, and his words, so far as intelligible, partook of his affected and conceited, yet not ungenerous character.

  30. Instead of obeying the orders of their sovereign, and satisfying, with decent liberality, the demands of the Goths, they levied an ungenerous and oppressive tax on the wants of the hungry Barbarians.

  31. Yielding to circumstances he accepted what he bluntly pronounced, "ungenerous and unchivalrous terms.

  32. General Buckner sent back word that he was compelled by circumstances "to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms" which had been proposed.

  33. Now he was caught in a maelstrom of ungenerous and malignant politics.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ungenerous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.