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Meanings of so stingy in English

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Usage of so stingy in English
1
He would not even give away a secret, he was so stingy.
Pee-wee Harris Adrift
2
You're so stingy I won't even let my grip stay near you.'
Tales of the Road
3
They are so stingy, the assembly-line worker in her late 30s told me.
News.com.au
4
If she hadn't been so stingy with her meat, she wouldn't have lost it.
The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends
5
She thought to herself that rich people were so stingy about the damnedest of things.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
6
They said old man Marshall was so stingy he would cut a pea in two.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
7
If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster.
Anne of Avonlea
8
I know 'em that ain't so stingy as you.
The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American...
9
The last money he gave me was half-a-crown, and I thought that he was so stingy!
The Small House at Allington
10
And he's becoming so stingy about money, too!
The Claverings
11
Maybe it's the unlikely heroics of something so delicate surviving in a place so stingy and hard.
Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
12
And so stingy with the enrollment bonus.
The Oracle Glass
13
Since when have you been so stingy?
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
14
I never could be so stingy.
The Californians
15
He's so stingy, he'd begrudge the money for a decent burial even if it wouldn't bring disgrace to him.
The Oracle Glass
16
Here the old lady took him up, 'You are so stingy, Mr. Rose, there is no bearing with you.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
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