[
US
/ˈstɪndʒi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.)
an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds
she practices economy without being stingy -
deficient in amount or quality or extent
meager fare
meager resources
How To Use stingy In A Sentence
- I hope you are not being stingy, which is the antithesis of an autumnal attitude. Dr. Cara Barker: An Equinox Prescription for Love, This Autumn
- A gentleman upbraids his servant: is it true, he asks him, that you have had the audacity to spread around the idea that your master is stingy?
- This area is quite stingy with information that really should be conveyed to anyone new with the game.
- Just like many homebrewers, the folks at Sierra Nevada are true hopheads, and no one has ever accused them of being stingy with the hops.
- As we reported earlier, an official from the United Nations accused large industrial nations of being stingy with international aid.
- One possible reason for Bachmann's failure to win the position, as HuffPost's Ryan Grim wrote last week, is that she was known as stingy with her campaign war chest: Michele Bachmann's GOP Conference Chair Bid OVER
- Don't be so stingy with the sugar!
- The stingy and selfish Nash refused to acknowledge his son and would not provide child support until Stier sued him.
- The Administration has been so stingy with reconstruction aid that he has literally had to come begging to Washington.
- I would like to link images to this post, but the Met is misguidedly stingy with their Web site.