Stingy
['stɪn(d)ʒɪ] or ['stɪndʒi]
Definition
(adj.) unwilling to spend; 'she practices economy without being stingy'; 'an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds' .
Edited by Carmella--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Stinging; able to sting.
(superl.) Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
Edited by Harold
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Niggardly, penurious, parsimonious, miserly, close, mean, covetous, avaricious, sordid, close-fisted.
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Definition
adj. niggardly: avaricious.—adv. Stin′gily.—n. Stin′giness
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Examples
- Why they say you are at all times the most stingy rich man in Europe. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mrs. Cholmondeley is a mean, stingy creature; she never gives me anything now. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- 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! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It seems stingy, to my notions, and dry, and unfriendly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- 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. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They both agreed in calling him an old screw; which means a very stingy, avaricious person. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What we good stingy people don't like, is having our sixpences sucked away from us. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We could give something if we chose; we need give nothing, if we were poor or if we were stingy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Now the said Duke of Leinster being a very stingy, stupid blockhead, whom nobody knows, I will describe him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It will only be for a time, I hope, that we shall have to be stingy and particular. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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