stinginess

How To Use stinginess In A Sentence

• It had surprised him to discover how difficult it was to find a buyer for his firestone, given how all the other Weyrs had complained about D'gan's stinginess. Dragon's Fire
• Consider the number of jokes about Scots that burlesqued their stinginess.
• Considering his habitual stinginess, we were surprised when he donated money to charity.
• And he rounded things off with a joke regarding the Scot's notoriety for stinginess and penny-pinching.
• His first two wives divorced him, citing his stinginess as their major complaint.
• He represents a refreshing change from those politicians that the public hold responsible for failures in education, stinginess in the treasury and double-standards on leadership.
• Thus he contemplates both Shakespeare's stinginess and his peculiar kind of generosity, an imaginative one that transformed a dying wastrel into the immortal Falstaff.
• The Brahms was uneconomically packaged as it is spread out on four CDs with no fillers, but such musical weight surely does not demand stinginess!
• Thus, miserliness is more than the English word stinginess. Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness
• But in other areas, she would seem to be thrifty to the point of stinginess.