Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a stingy manner; with mean niggardliness; in a niggardly manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a stingy manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
stingy manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a stingy manner
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Examples
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By the way, I have one relative like dat dat was just saving his millions 'stingily' until he got badly duped.
Here and there 2008
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Pin feathers were flying everywhere, and the dust motes swirled in the wan light that the colored glass stingily allowed to enter in streaks.
Sacrifice Hugh Barlow 2011
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However, knowing now that there was a movie in the works and a big payday ahead, getting a traditional publisher on board, however stingily they were acting, would be better than no published book at all, I tried to rationalize.
Rex Pickett: The 'Sideways' Publishing Saga -- The St. Martin's Press Nightmare (Part I) Rex Pickett 2012
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Why does the United States reward its writers so stingily, if at all?
Art and Culture 2010
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Furthermore, true freedom consists of more than negative rights, which you are probably stingily inclined to limit it too.
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However, knowing now that there was a movie in the works and a big payday ahead, getting a traditional publisher on board, however stingily they were acting, would be better than no published book at all, I tried to rationalize.
Rex Pickett: The 'Sideways' Publishing Saga -- The St. Martin's Press Nightmare (Part I) Rex Pickett 2012
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Furthermore, true freedom consists of more than negative rights, which you are probably stingily inclined to limit it too.
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Sade, the notoriously press-shy songstress who has stingily parceled out music since the mid-'80s, seems like the type to have never heard of Kanye West.
Diamond Lite 2010
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Americans can't afford to buy new cars because they can't afford to give themselves the fake raises they'd been giving themselves with their credit cards and home equity lines of credit in place of the actual raises corporate America had been stingily denying them for decades.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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We stingily offer the Lord in our finances, energy, aspirations, and life what amounts to the proverbial coins under the couch cushion and think that the lost, the church, and God should somehow be pleased.
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