Stingy
['stɪn(d)ʒɪ] or ['stɪndʒi]
解释:
(adj.) unwilling to spend; 'she practices economy without being stingy'; 'an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds' .
卡梅拉整理--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Stinging; able to sting.
(superl.) Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
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同义词及近义词：
a. Niggardly, penurious, parsimonious, miserly, close, mean, covetous, avaricious, sordid, close-fisted.
珍妮整理
解释:
adj. niggardly: avaricious.—adv. Stin′gily.—n. Stin′giness
录入:撒迦利亚
例句:
- Why they say you are at all times the most stingy rich man in Europe. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Mrs. Cholmondeley is a mean, stingy creature; she never gives me anything now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Not that a man is to blame for being stupid, be he duke or tinker; but then Devonshire is so incorrigibly affected and stingy withal! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- It seems stingy, to my notions, and dry, and unfriendly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Bound to happen to a good-looking girl with stingy relatives, I suppose; anyhow, they DID happen, and she found the ground prepared for her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- They both agreed in calling him an old screw; which means a very stingy, avaricious person. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- What we good stingy people don't like, is having our sixpences sucked away from us. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- We could give something if we chose; we need give nothing, if we were poor or if we were stingy. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Now the said Duke of Leinster being a very stingy, stupid blockhead, whom nobody knows, I will describe him. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- It will only be for a time, I hope, that we shall have to be stingy and particular. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
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