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ungenerous

British pronunciation/ʌnd‍ʒˈɛnəɹəs/
American pronunciation/ʌndʒˈɛnɚɹəs/
ungenerous
[ADJECTIVE]
1

unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.)

synonyms : stingy
antonyms : generous
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ungenerous definition and meaning
2

lacking in magnanimity

synonyms : meanspirited
antonyms : generous
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Examples
1My encouragement to you is to be the women and men who embody civility, who demonstrate a generosity of spirit in an ungenerous time.
2But, in the spirit in which we interpret failings of character and respond to people’s less fortunate sides in the online and real worlds, we tend to retain a similarly damning and ungenerous set of attitudes.
3I think there's two things that would be actually quite helpful, which I'll just float here, neither of which is in the current proposal, but I'll float them anyway, is a significant expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is, I think, the most successful redistributive part of the tax system today and is, I think, in many ways ungenerous in many, many ways, which we can discuss.
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