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Significats de scrimy en anglès

Petty or reluctant in giving or spending.

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Examples for "grudging"
Examples for "grudging"
1
You can come in for a bit.' A grudging invitation at best.
Book of lost threads
2
He has the grudging respect of every faction in the National Assembly.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
3
Queer youth don't have even that grudging level of mainstream acceptance, yet.
Wired
4
But the response of the political establishment has been slow and grudging.
The Irish Times
5
As apologies went it settled somewhere on the wrong side of grudging.
Lockdown
1
A niggardly purse in the pocket becomes a thorn in the side.
Levels of Living / Essays on Everyday Ideals
2
The Creator does not administer the universe on so niggardly a plan.
Miss Ludington's Sister
3
And further, son of Jahdai, be niggardly in nothing concerning our Lael.
The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01
4
The italics emphasize our own feeling with regard to this niggardly arrangement.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919
5
Profuse to many unworthy applicants, the Ministers were niggardly to him alone.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1