How To Use Stingy In A Sentence
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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
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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?
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This area is quite stingy with information that really should be conveyed to anyone new with the game.
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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.
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As we reported earlier, an official from the United Nations accused large industrial nations of being stingy with international aid.
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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
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Don't be so stingy with the sugar!
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The stingy and selfish Nash refused to acknowledge his son and would not provide child support until Stier sued him.
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The Administration has been so stingy with reconstruction aid that he has literally had to come begging to Washington.
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I would like to link images to this post, but the Met is misguidedly stingy with their Web site.
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When the food's gone, I take a mental survey of the night's festivities — a gram-and-a-half spliff rolled with the remainder of Billy and his old man's stash unlaced, half an E pill shaped like Starscream of the Transformers, two small lines of stingy coke some Rican probably cut with a lot of speed or Ex-Lax, five or six beers — a perfect exercise in decadent moderation.
Monkeytown prologue/chapter first
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she practices economy without being stingy
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He's stingy with the details of his life, yet she can't help but be intrigued.
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prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
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The Scouser is ignorant, stupid and fat, the gay dad is queeny, stupid and over-dressed and the Asian is stingy, stupid and scared of his mum.
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Expressions: une tête de lard = pigheaded ne pas jeter son lard aux chiens = to be stingy rentrer dans le lard à quelqu'un = to attack someone venir comme lard en pois = to be timely
Recette / Recipe
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Bothered by lack of funds and the fear of a ‘shabby, stingy bimillenary,’ Novelist Jules (Men of Good Will) Romains resigned his job as head of the planning committee to celebrate Paris’ 2,000th anniversary next year.
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Uncle Fred, a stingy and grey-faced man of forty, who just lived dingily for himself, went into town every day.
The Virgin and the Gypsy
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We don't want to be stingy with those mortar rounds when the enemy is coming over the ridge.
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I mean I am good at being a Catholic: by turns devout and dubious, by turns proud and ashamed of our church history and practice, by turns stingy and generous in my tithing.
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As we reported earlier, an official from the United Nations accused large industrial nations of being stingy with international aid.
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Compared with the 16-cylinder, eight liter Bugatti Veyron, which chugs one gallon for every eight miles, the electrics and hybrids are downright stingy.
Robert F. Brands: Greenwashing: Electric Cars and Innovation Stalled
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Corporations no longer brag about their generous benefits; instead they take pride in offering stingy benefits and low wages.
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Stingy kids got sick, after the disease cured by taking medication.
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A fellow who "skinned his flint" was looked upon as being a parsimonious, penny-pinching, stingy cheapskate — a veritable skinflint. ramrod A ramrod is a rod of wood or metal for ramming the ball and patch down the barrel of a muzzleloading firearm and setting them against the main powder charge.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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He is a stingy businessman who vehemently wants to reclaim money lent to his wife.
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Q In view of the White House's forthcomingness on the budget in the last few days, does it strike you that the Republicans stated willingness only to consider a CR running until Monday or Tuesday is excessively stingy?
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
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The budget chief for west Wiltshire has been barred from a town pub for being too stingy with his cash.
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He's really stingy and never buys the drinks when we go out.
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With a dominant ground game and a stingy defense, the Dolphins are outscoring their opponents by the largest margin of any team in the league other than the Chargers, who are tied with the Dolphins.
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He gives the dullest parties in town and is stingy with the drinks.
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James can be seen as an American Everyman at the end of the Gilded Age, wealthy in money, but stingy and bankrupt in spirit.
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They confuse popularity with wealth, and you are labelled as stingy.
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This, however, our "darkie" friend does not much mind, particularly if his master be a "stingy old boss," and keeps him on rice instead of meat rations.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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Don't be so stingy with the cream!
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He was also very stingy with them and refused to give bulbs away or even to sell them.
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The euro area is being notably stingy with both fiscal and monetary stimulus, and I'm not the only one who's stonkered by it.
FP Passport
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My problem is that Harpercollins is being really stingy with the Anansi Boys proofs.
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She's too stingy to give money to charity.
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He gives the dullest parties in town and is stingy with the drinks.
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Don't be so stingy with the butter.
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They set up a money-market account and "became a little more stingy, which is easy when you're sitting around the house with a kid," says Mr. Williams, 32.
The Game Plan
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Although he supports his mother financially, he presents him as stingy and ungrateful, single-mindedly devoted to his own success.
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If it is something very stingy or very liberal, all Thrums knows of it within a few hours; indeed, this holds good of all the churches, especially perhaps of the Free one, which has been called the bawbee kirk, because so many halfpennies find their way into the plate.
Auld Licht Idylls
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My dad usually was stingy with money, and had never given me more than twenty dollars for shopping before in my life.
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I haven't yet done anything with my borage because, well, neither the flowers nor the leaves taste like much of anything, and the stalks are stingy and unpleasant to the touch.
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Utopians might expect that the auto makers will offer countless octane-stingy hybrids and zero-emission fuel-cell vehicles to a public seeking to wean itself from all addiction to the cursed internal combustion engine.
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A nipcheese in Scottish-English is a miser, a skinflint; someone who only takes small bites at cheese because they are too stingy to buy more.
The nip is a two pack breakfast
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The stingy hankerer after what Corny called four inches of dirt was his father.
A Jolly Fellowship
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In the twenty-four-inch space at the right end of the hot dog there was a brown-yellow plain with just a few thorny trees a-thirsting on it and a pride of lions resting in the stingy shade beneath one of those trees, and far in the distance, too far for the warm lions to bother with, a herd of wildebeests was kicking up dust, and even further in the distance Mt. Kilimanjaro jumped up like God's own sugar-tit, and in a modest encampment at the foot of the peak, E. Hemingway was cleaning his Weatherby 375 magnum (not trusting the native boys to handle such an instrument) and slurping his gin.
Another Roadside Attraction
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A U.N. official backs off from some comments that some nations are stingy with international aid.
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States that have been labeled 'stingy' -- reported to lag behind the nation in charitable giving – - actually have higher generosity levels than those previously indicated by a widely-touted annual index, according to a new study by researchers at the Boston College Center on Wealth and Philanthropy.
Science Press Releases
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Over the years, he's studied a considerable amount of information about supplements, and he's very stingy with his shelf space.
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The correct spelling of the word for stingy is tacaño.
Some Things I'll Never Learn (about living in Mexico)
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On the other hand, you need a lot of dividend income for this tax break to stimulate your personal economy, and companies are stingy doling dividends out.
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Perhaps it should be noted that many persons will think that three ounces of cooked lean meat make a stingy portion.
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The throttle kicks in, pulling your feet off the ground, while quickly and simultaneously crushing your head into the ceiling … After two years of wishing for a zippy, noir-ish thrill ride, and mind you, being promised that by all of the hype – we only get a stingy game that traffics in potential and nothing more.
DARK VOID PS3 Review – Collider.com
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But maybe that's because Greg Sargent's question is based on a captious and stingy premise.
Hillary's Closer -- A Big Moment, Or Not Enough?
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Generous with encouragement for preservation, the Colonial Office was stingy with funds to pay for policing vast unsettled areas.
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The chiefs left the ship displeased at what they called stingy conduct in the captain, as they were accustomed to receive trifling presents from the traders on the coast.
Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River
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It is on this note that I return to my native Scotland for the festive season, a country whose natives are labeled as being a stingy, frugal bunch that are not much prone to bouts of giving.
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They confuse popularity with wealth, and you are labelled as stingy.
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Plus, I don't understand how he can be so generous with his girlfriends (I recently found out he has more than one) and then be so stingy with his own children.
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The place was an all - night cafe owned by a bitter and stingy man called Leo.
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Columbia has been a bit stingy with the scene selections, only allowing for 16 in the course of the 135 minutes.
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I work for a real estate firm that is extremely stingy with perks like that, even when it would benefit them
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Someone is being stingy with the spices for the lamb shank, and veal Milanese seems like an interloper from another menu.
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Baldwin brushed that off while improving to 6-0 with a stingy
American League Baseball - White Sox vs. Mariners
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Synopsis: A stingy merchant hires a trainee from the College and Order of Heralds to assist with alien languages and customs on a trade run to the low-tech planet Lyra.
REVIEW: The Good Old Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois
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Meanwhile, on the same news day, we got word that while CEOs were being stingy with wages, they were going on a wild spending binge in another area: mergers.
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In fact, it should not recommend either, since the spicy salami, bocconcini and tomato panino is too stingy on fillings.
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Don't go for too much destruction with your weapons however as the game is at times rather stingy with its ammo supply.
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In the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, president Bush pledged $35 million and then, under pressure from the media and other nations - to say nothing of the United Nations, which accused the US of being "stingy" - increased contributions to $350 million.
EU Referendum
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They didn’t see anything around them but the usual green garbagy tangle of rot and life and stingy things that is Jungle; millions of buzzy furry sets of jaws frantic to get a hunk of your skin or to eat out your belly.
Again to Carthage
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Perhaps it should be noted that many persons will think that three ounces of cooked lean meat make a stingy portion.
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And he did this while our country was being called stingy by the UN and was being mocked by the German media for always wanting military solutions to problems.
Jindal, the Coast Guard, and the barges: government efficiency at its finest
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The rajah is a regular old pirate, as my father says, and he helps himself to whatever he fancies from everybody round, but there's nothing stingy about him as you'll find.
The Rajah of Dah
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The band is stingy with its arrangements, bringing in the simplest bits of melody or rhythm only at the most necessary moments.
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Mother Hallam is the prototypical matriarch; the sisters-in-law are postmarital versions of Cinderella’s stepsisters — unattractive, catty, and stingy; and the materialistic sons enjoy a complacent rigidity.
Rose Franken.
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Perhaps the most important aspect would have been the low power requirements of the Radioscape receiver: mobile phones have to be very stingy with battery capacity.
