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ungenerous

Adjective

Meaning

Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. Samuel Richardson

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold. Nelson A. Miles

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth. Tryon Edwards

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. Demosthenes

At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Joseph Addison

Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others. Idries Shah

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