It seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an ungenerous portion; an ungenerous employer. ,an ungenerous critic; an ungenerous impulse. From Dictionary.com.
Mary, oppressed by the idea of ungenerous concealment, resolved at length to unveil her heart to a mother so tender of her happiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne] Reference
Rachel - John James & Ben stating Ben is "ungenerous". From Wordnik.com. [Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine] Reference
My struggle to gain my livelihood was for some time rendered considerably more difficult by this kind of ungenerous and underhand antagonism. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference
And the heart, ungenerous, is a trigger for tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [THE CAPTION CHANGES BUT THE PICTURE STAYS THE SAME] Reference
This passion led me to some rather ungenerous sentiments. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The Gelding That Could] Reference
'Tis ungenerous in you, sir, to upbraid me with your services!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
Then Roland, who never knew an ungenerous thought, quickly said. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
I wouldn't have your mean, little bit of a suspicious, ungenerous mind!. From Wordnik.com. [Shelled by an Unseen Foe] Reference
Then a sort of vague feeling that she is being ungenerous distresses her. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
"You mentioned it," said Spener reluctantly, in most ungenerous acknowledgment. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
What pinched, ungenerous philosophy was it that insisted on voluntary starvation?. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
But after reviewing the agreements, The Economist termed them "deeply ungenerous.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dangerous Power Vacuum] Reference
To say that they are not is as ungenerous as to criticise the conduct of the insane. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
Josephine might have been, they were not mingled with one ungenerous or unjust sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Eustace felt it would be mean and ungenerous to get Herbert into trouble behind his back. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
It saddens me to see good fellows trampling one another down, growing hard and ungenerous. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Confederate arms yesterday, to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms which you propose. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The first of these reasons was, that it would have been highly ungenerous to take advantage of. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
"Do you suppose I could ever love a man who had the paltry, ungenerous instinct to enchain me?". From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
But the very conduct to which the press had compelled him was made a cause of ungenerous prejudices. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Though you are so often indiscreet, fickle, ungenerous in your friendships, girls, I believe in them. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
I thought at least you were candid and straightforward: I find you faithless, ungrateful, ungenerous!. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
'Dear mother,' she writes, 'pray interpose to prevent Miss Polehampton from doing an unjust and ungenerous thing. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
She has been almost impertinent, considering his age and relationship to her; nay, more, she has been ungenerous. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
There were few persons could compare with Mrs. Gaunt in native magnanimity; yet how ungenerous a stab had she given. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
I'm just pleased that your story may represent the end of an ungenerous portrayal of a technology that is, in fact, benign. From Wordnik.com. [The Simplistic American?] Reference
But when she was so ungenerous as to call me "a pretty boy," the fire returned to my heart, and I too drew myself up proudly. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
In a tone of polished affability, Clayson brushed off the persistent talk that Gumbel was ungenerous in his previous partnership. From Wordnik.com. [Scramble For The Bacon] Reference
As a seller of land, he was both just and generous, and from no one ever came the complaint of oppressive or ungenerous treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Mail CallMy correspondents were decidedly ungenerous in their comments on my pre-NBA finals assessment of the Lakers-Pistons series. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The NBA in Black and White] Reference
Warburton on account of the extravagance of his claims and his ungenerous treatment of predecessors to whom he was greatly indebted. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
In the other -- but the words just quoted anticipate as it seems to us, and in no ungenerous spirit, the verdict and language of history. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
All right, all right-I have been too categorical and mean-minded too broad-brushed and caricaturelike in setting up my scheme, unfair, ungenerous and many other uns. From Wordnik.com. [Love And Marriage] Reference
But I did not like to appear ungrateful, or unwilling to repay the kindness I received, as far as I was able; still I could not help feeling that it was an ungenerous demand. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
In Baker's surprisingly ungracious and ungenerous world, Patrick has yet to do a single constructive thing in warding off the economic woes that have buffeted the entire nation. From Wordnik.com. [What's eating Charlie Baker?] Reference
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