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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