(a.) Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1894 : Area named Ubangi-Chari and set up as a dependency by the French 1910 : Integrated in the Federation of French Equatorial Africa 1958 : The territory gains self-government within French Equatorial Africa and Barthélemy Boganda becomes prime minister 1960 : David Dacko becomes president of now-independent Central African Republic (CAR) 1962 : President makes the country a one-party state.
(2) British leaders of the postwar and cold-war eras were chary of wars of intervention.
(3) The lake is fed by the Chari and Logone rivers, flowing into it from southwest.
(4) I had suggested doing an "at home" in Sussex, but he was chary about me describing the "soft furnishings, stuffed lions illegally shot, etc".
(5) Governments have been chary of the question of who pays, how much and when.
(6) These findings fully corroborate a prediction made by us on the basis of mechanistic and stereochemical analyses of CMLE and MLE [Chari, R. V. J., Whitman, C. P., Kozarich, J. W., Ngai, K.-L., & Ornston, L. N. (1987) J.
(7) The new species differs from M. charis in an oval shape and size of the body of females, large stylet of females and larvae, low place of the entry of the dorsal duct into the oesophagal lumen, long and slender tail of larvae.
(8) However, one should be chary of referring AEBP change of vascular origin to any particular section on the basis of these deductions alone.
(9) Electric organ discharges (EODs) of Gymnarchus niloticus in its natural habitat (Chari River, Chad Basin) and accompanying ecological data (pH, conductivity, temperature, turbidity, O2 dissolved) were recorded.
(10) Among a few others, studies carried out in India (K. R. Nair & Virmani, 1973 Indian Journal of Medical Research, 61, 9; P. Chary, 1986, In Language processing in bilinguals: Psycholinguistic and neuropsychological perspectives) have lent support to the notion of a higher incidence of crossed aphasia among bi- and multilinguals and form major citations in support of the hypothesis that bilingualism could lead to a greater bilateral cerebral representation of languages.
(11) 1.49pm BST Paolo Di Canio has now officially signed a brand-new team at Sunderland with the teenage Greek winger Charis Mavrias signing for £2.5m from Panathinaikos.
(12) The definitive chorioallantoic placental barrier in this bat thus differs from the organization earlier proposed by Chari and Gopalakrishna [Proc.
(13) An earlier cursory analysis of distinctive features in these data (Chari, N.C.A., Herman, G. and Danhauer, J.L.
(14) The authors report on an outbreak of Schistosoma mansoni infestation involving 113 military men who had been contaminated together in a tributary of the Chari river in the Central African Republic.
(15) In light of current discussions on multiple forms of inhibin, it was thought of interest to ascertain the identity of the postulated 'iso-hormones' of bull seminal plasma inhibin (Chari et al., 1978).
(16) An epidemic of human and animal anthrax raged in Chad mainly in the Department of Chari Baguirmi from September to December 1988, infesting more than 50% of donkeys and horses.
(17) The authors give on historical record of the focus of the sleeping disease in Moyen-Chari (South of Chad) from 1914 to 1989.
(18) Resisting the temptation to unleash Fletcher, Di Canio moved Sebastian Larsson and Charis Mavrias off the bench and into the equation and, almost imperceptibly, Sunderland regained a foothold in the tie.
Ungenerous
Definition:
(a.) Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Who wants to be seen with that narrow, ungenerous and (to the rest of Canada) irritating thing, a separatist?
(2) That would only happen if there was a remarkable run on the pound this year - so the odds feel a little ungenerous.
(3) If you were being ungenerous, you might say such headlines make a nice change.
(4) The show was hosted by Ricky Gervais – who not quite the same version of himself that hosted last year's event, when he attracted criticism for an extended absence from stage and for striking an ungenerous tone.
(5) And just as the healthcare debates have been disrupted by an astonishing amount of hateful speech, so the national blogosphere is filled with bitter, ungenerous commentary about the time he cheated on an exam at Harvard; or how he called his political advisers before he called paramedics when his car plunged off a bridge on Martha's Vineyard, leaving the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, a young campaign aide, submerged for nearly nine hours; or whetherhe drank to excess.
(6) They play on people's fears and anxieties, pushing a view of the world that is backwards and ungenerous.
(7) It may be the case that, as Clegg says, an "ungenerous, backwards-looking politics has emerged in Britain".
(8) The money will have to be repaid, and repaid at ungenerous rates of interest: in this case, 5.2%.
(9) An ungenerous, backwards-looking politics has emerged in Britain ," Clegg said.
(10) I have never had Monbiot down as an ungenerous character, but to ignore all of this in favour of blowing up a controversy around one small part of the negotiations, known as investor protection, seems to me positively Scrooge-like.
(11) But that’s not to say the fight isn’t on for the future of our country too.” Although he is not expected to mention Ukip or Farage in his speech, he will warn: “An ungenerous, backwards-looking politics has emerged in Britain.
(12) Keen on working in England, he threw his hat into the managerial ring when Roy Keane parted with Sunderland last December but the Wearside's club's far from ungenerous board were deterred by the Italian's salary demands.
(13) Faced by a journalist's microphone, Bush is reserved, dry, ungenerous – the exact opposite of how she is faced by a microphone in a recording studio.
(14) An ungenerous, backwards looking politics has emerged in Britain."
(15) I get the impression she quite likes this image, though she says the programme was ungenerous to the Budworths.
(16) An ungenerous, backwards-looking politics has emerged in Britain."
(17) It would be ungenerous to doubt the good intentions of Michael Moritz, chairman of the California-based Sequoia Capital, and his wife, Harriet Heyman, who have pledged £75m to launch the fund and, in return, will have the pleasure of generations of students being called Moritz-Heyman scholars just as some Etonians are called King's scholars .