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  • Ungenerous - if this was the case, I wouldn't be wasting a perfectly good morning of my life composing a civil reply to an ignorant cock.

    In Vino Veritas juliette 2009

  • Ungenerous minds, and absurd fanatics, every day endeavor to prejudice the powerful and the ignorant against philosophers.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • My dearest creature, said I, and was proceeding, but, with a face glowing with conscious dignity, she interrupted me — Ungenerous, ungrateful Lovelace!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Ungenerous master! if you knew this, you surely would not be so much my persecutor!

    Pamela 2006

  • Ungenerous as we are, we learn other languages out of spite, as it were, to abuse them with, and cry out, "One tongue is enough for a woman."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

  • Ungenerous for resenting, for hating him for the position he has put me into.

    The Imaginary Marriage Henry St. John Cooper

  • And then her thoughts drifted away to another man, and she seemed to hear again the last word he had spoken to her -- "Ungenerous."

    The Imaginary Marriage Henry St. John Cooper

  • "Ungenerous!" he said, so that she alone could hear, and then he was gone, and Helen looked after him.

    The Imaginary Marriage Henry St. John Cooper

  • Ungenerous men of great wealth were assigned a low rank in society.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • Ungenerous hosts have cozened Vachel by begging him to recite his poems at the beginning of each course, in the meantime getting on with their eating; but despite the naïveté of his eagerness to sing, there is a plain and manly simplicity about Vachel that delights us all.

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

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