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Meanings of stingy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "meagre"
Examples for "meagre"
1
If past industry experience is any guide, however, returns could be meagre.
2
The performance was in every sense unexciting; the audience meagre and unenthusiastic.
3
Moreover, fixed-interest investments worldwide provide meagre yields or some risk at present.
4
The meagre light revealed in the cuffs links of a peculiar device.
5
The lucky ones get a day of back-breaking work for meagre pay.
1
He would offer his allegiance, his help, however meager it might be.
2
But Gonzalez's payments dwarf the meager handouts given previous computer crime informants.
3
The furnishings were meager; it wouldn't take long to search the place.
4
Want to put your meager ducats and empty tabletops to good use?
5
Perhaps, he thought, Matthew belittled what he probably saw as meager achievements.
1
The only thing down here is a dank, meagerly stocked root cellar.
2
The Daguerrean plate and the Aeolian harp do but meagerly interpret his receptivity.
3
It was small, meagerly furnished, and offensive from want of cleanliness.
4
As I have said, the common table was meagerly kept.
5
They were all children, meagerly clothed, badly nourished, ill developed.
1
I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow.
2
The dear, little, scrimpy, patched darling.
3
Did he suppose that seven scrimpy scraps of bacon was her notion of a lunch between four hungry persons?
4
A lack of computing power, scrimpy research budgets, and an overworked National Weather Service are the prime reasons for this forecast gap.
5
"Where," said Mrs. White, "did you get such a pair of horrid, old, scrimpy, frightful things as them?
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