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Meanings of stingily in English

In a stingy manner.

        Usage of stingily in English
        1
        Its thatch is hollow; the peat-smoke curls stingily from its stunted chimney.
        J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
        2
        Those would be a limited luxury that we parceled out stingily.
        An ordinary man
        3
        You will not receive if you give out stingily, narrowly, meanly.
        Pushing to the Front
        4
        Karal had brought along a flask of hot tea, which he doled out stingily to Maurizio.
        Seraphina
        5
        Yet she'd been so bound up, she had only used that gift stingily on her dial-a-prayer line.
        Indivisible
        6
        His very sleep was stingily meted out to him: "Too much sleep stupefies a fellow!"
        History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04
        7
        Alexander now wrote to him, "We have sent you abundance of frankincense and myrrh, that you may no longer treat the gods so stingily."
        Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)
        8
        The Titans will probably have to put a tight end or chip with a running back to help Stingily contain the Texans star.
        Reuters
        Frequent collocations
        Stingily through the time