Lacking in charity, liberality, or magnanimity; ungenerous, mean. Obsolete.

Not charitable; lacking in charity. Of persons, etc.

Not charitable; uncharitable.

figurative. Of persons: Shut up within oneself, uncommunicative, morose, unsympathetic. Obsolete.

Not generous; ungenerous. Mean-spirited, dastardly.

Not generous or large-minded; illiberal. Of actions, conduct, etc.

Of a person, a person's character, etc.: lacking moral dignity, ignoble; small-minded. Now rare or passing into sense 6.

Contracted in intelligence or sympathy.

Of a person's ‘heart’: Contracted in sympathies, narrow. (Cf. strait-hearted adj., strait-heartedness n. at compounds 1b(b).)

ungenerous, exacting, mean.

Contemptible, paltry, mean; small-minded. Now somewhat rare.

Lacking in magnanimity; ignoble; ungenerous.

That narrows or contracts; that makes something narrow.

Of behaviour, etc.: ungenerous, dishonourable; contemptible. Cf. shabby, adj. 2a.