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Meanings of stingy in English
Usage of stingy in English
1
One thing about Arthur: with respect to being stingy, he was consistent.
2
The harvest was scanty, the Nile stingy in his bounty this year.
3
The Rangers overwhelmed a notoriously stingy team and left their coach impressed.
4
One was too large, the other too small, and both were stingy.
5
The clique which had rated his reticence stingy was eager to believe.
6
He sure was stingy and the meanest white man I ever seed.
7
These people, the Eneeshurs, were stingy, inhospitable, and overbearing in their ways.
8
He is proud and cold, and, between ourselves, stingy in money matters.
9
Dolly wasn't stingy with gasoline, but her tank was built for travel.
10
The man who means everything he says is generally a stingy talker.
11
Some fellows-thestingy sort-willsave up their parcels against a rainy day.
12
If I lost a wife at all, it was a stingy one.
13
This firm is too stingy to keep a full force of clerks.
14
Mr. Perkins was a close manager but not stingy with his wife.
15
The old Kreders were to an Irish nature, a stingy, dirty couple.
16
He would not even give away a secret, he was so stingy.
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Stingy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common