Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being stingy; extreme avarice; niggardliness; miserliness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being stingy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A lack of
generosity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money
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Examples
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Yet Congress's stinginess is being compounded by the administration's recent decision to reject a request from New York and several other states to increase food stamp outlays to the poor as fuel bills mount.
12/25/2005 2005
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"The last degree of stinginess is not to disturb the mildew," is a neat axiom; and "The plantain does not bear fruit twice," tells that the Malays have an inkling that "There is a tide in the affairs of men," etc.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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Thus, miserliness is more than the English word stinginess.
Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness 2006
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A margin too narrow conveys the idea of stinginess, as if to economize paper, while an irregular or zigzag margin conveys the idea of carelessness or want of precision.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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From the root of greed stem other evil afflictions, such as stinginess, envy, hate, fraud, deceit ... known as secondary afflictions.
Waylon Lewis: Tortured by Love, Lust or a Crush? The Buddhist Solution (is Gross). 2010
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John Gibb Millspaugh suggests that it's a kind of stinginess not to let people know about the religious community that means so much to you.
Philocrites: This week at uuworld.org: Don't be stingy. 2007
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John Gibb Millspaugh suggests that it's a kind of stinginess not to let people know about the religious community that means so much to you.
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Rothschild, the head of the great banking house in London and the chief of the syndicate, especially complained of what he called the "stinginess" of the treasury department.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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The testimony of Mr. Fletcher, his gardener, gloomy over his beer in the bar-parlours, seems to support the "stinginess" that the vicar has determined in Mr. Marrapit's character.
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Also he accused me of "stinginess," in not wanting
Set in Silver 1901
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