ungenerous

Modifying Another Word

• not: Female respondents were on the whole not ungenerous in their estimations of Australianness as broadcast on the ABC.
• so: Over this Munis was not so much bitter as sad - sad that comrades in the movement should have been so ungenerous.
• little: What I always want is for them to say the marks are broadly accurate, if a little ungenerous.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: We were in truth becoming very bored which seemed most ungenerous as Mamallapuram was a reasonable place to be.

Modifies a noun

• participant: Despite being the most guilty and ungenerous participants involved, they are still allowed to define the rules of the game.
• response: These proposals will strike most people as a gratuitously ungenerous response by the state to those who have been locked up unjustly.