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stingy
1[ stin-jee ]
stingy
2[ sting-ee ]
adjective
- having a sting.
stingy
1/ ˈstɪndʒɪ /
adjective
- unwilling to spend or give
- insufficient or scanty
stingy
2/ ˈstɪŋɪ /
adjective
- informal.stinging or capable of stinging
noun
- dialect.a stinging nettle
I put my hand on a stingy
Derived Forms
- ˈstinginess, noun
- ˈstingily, adverb
Other Words From
- stin·gi·ly adverb
- stin·gi·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of stingy1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
His post-election press conference was too long, too provocative, and too stingy in his phoned-in praise for the winners.
The city is notoriously stingy with snow days, closing schools less than 10 times since 1978, including Friday.
Any way you look at it, corporate America has been very stingy.
Tired of being a poster child for stingy salaries, Walmart snarkily takes a leading left-wing critic to task.
John Paul Getty, Jr. was a major philanthropist, to a slew of causes, and he was not stingy.
He smiled a little, in his stingy way of doing it, taking her hand to allay her tumult of distress.
Let us rather remember that the Rev. Matthew Gibson was crazed, stingy withal, and had no child by his wife.
"It would be cruel to demand a large sum from that old and stingy man," remarked Le Glorieux.
"Since he knows so well how to make gold, I wonder why he is so stingy," whispered the jester to Antoine.
Kichibei, the eel-broiler, on finding this out, thought he would charge his stingy neighbor for the smell of his eels.
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